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Umanesimo cristiano e dottrina sociale

2008

Decorazione, illustrazione o metafora? Su un gruppo di terrecotte architettoniche dal sito di S. Biagio ad Agrigento

2014

At the end of the 19th cent. P. Orsi acquired for the Archaeological Museum of Syracuse a group of architectural terracottas said to come from Agrigentum, San Biagio area (on the SE slope of the Rupe Atenea). This lot, left quite unnoticed until now, consists of six antefixes of late 5th-early 3rd cent. B.C. Tarantine types with relief heads of Gorgo-Medusa, Pan, and Artemis Bendis, that can confirm the circulation of these products, known otherwhere in Sicily by a few specimens from Gela excavations and from surface finds. But the most noteworthy piece is a fragmentary clay sima with a lion head spout, dated around 280-70 B.C., that is particularly interesting both for the technique and fo…