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Il cratere del Pittore dei Niobidi al Museo Archeologico di Agrigento: dalla Gela post-tirannica alla Sicilia post-unitaria

2018

The paper considers the monumental crater of the Niobid Painter found in Gela in 1889 and preserved in the Archaeological Museum of Agrigento. It depicts an Amazonomachy all round its body, the myth of Herakles and Pholos along with a Centauromachy on the two sides of its neck. The first part of the contribution traces the history of the vase from its discovery to the musealization; the symbolical meaning taken up by this object and this type of precious vases in the post-united Sicily is reconstructed. In the second part of the paper, the crater (a cinerarium) with its images are analyzed in their ancient context of use. This study is an attempt to reconstruct the physiognomy of the Geloan…