Tomb of the Diver - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Tomb of the Diver - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Tomb of the Diver (), now in the museum at Paestum, Italy, is a frescoed tomb of the 5th century BCE, famous for the mysterious subject matter of the ceiling fresco, a lone diver leaping into a pool of water. The context of the tomb is disputed: there has been scholarly debate about whether the tomb was built by people from the nearby Greek settlement of " Poseidonia", now Paestum, or by an ancient Italic tribe living in the surrounding countryside. The tomb was built with five large stone slabs, each with a fresco attributed to one of two artists. The four walls are decorated with scenes of a symposium which is uncommon for a funerary context. This diving figure is unique to this tomb, no other ancient Mediterranean artworks have imagery comparable to the diver. Read more on Wikipedia
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