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Small panel

    • Provenienza:
      Syracuse, Achradina, Quartarone property, excavation 1971
    • Data:
      Hellenistic period
    • Materiali:
      Terracotta
    • Dimensioni:
      height 10.5 cm, width 7.1 cm
    • Collocazione:
      Syracuse, Museo Archeologico Regionale “Paolo Orsi”
    • Inventario:
      inv. 70399
  • Small panel

The small panel is an unusual object whose function is not known. The symbols on the artefact can be linked to the cult of Isis. The small panel, found in a residential context and perhaps kept in the "sacred space" of the house, may be part of a private magic-religious ritual.