Tomb of the Diver

The Tomb of the Diver is a frescoed tomb dating to around 500 to 475 BCE, discovered near Paestum in southern Italy and now held in the National Archaeological Museum of Paestum. Its ceiling fresco depicts a lone diver leaping into a pool of water, an image whose meaning has long been debated by scholars, while its four walls show scenes of a symposium, or banquet, unusual for a funerary context. It was built from five large stone slabs, with the frescoes attributed to one of two artists, and whether it was built by Greek settlers from nearby Poseidonia or by a local Italic people remains disputed. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/