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Tomb of the Diver

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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/

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Year Created
-470 2
Location
National Archaeological Museum of Paestum 3
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Fresco 2
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Fresco, Art Forms
Source Tomb of the Diver (Wikipedia)
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1. Tomb of the Diver (Wikipedia)
  • Lead section
    The Tomb of the Diver (Italian: Tomba del tuffatore), now in the National Archaeological Museum of Paestum, is a frescoed tomb that dates to around 500 to 475 BCE, and is famous for the mysterious subject matter of the ceiling fresco, a lone diver leaping into a pool of water.
  • In Form: Painting, Lead
    is a frescoed tomb
  • In Form: Fresco, Lead
    is a frescoed tomb
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2. Wikidata: Tomb of the Diver
  • Wikidata Q464384, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)
  • Wikidata Q464384, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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3. Tomb of the Diver (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, Current museum
    National Archaeological Museum of Paestum
  • Lead, uniqueness
    While thousands of Greek tomes are known from the Archaic and Classical periods (roughly 700-400 BCE), this is the only tomb from that period to have been discovered decorated with frescoes of human subjects.
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