#metapontum

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Lucanian krater depicting Hermes and Herse (?)

* Metapontum

* 390-380 BCE

* Louvre

Source: Bibi Saint-Pol, own work,Louvre Museum / Public domain

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Ionic Temple

Metapontion, Magna Graecia, Italy

480-470 BCE Ionic order

The temple was dedicated to an unknown deity and stood on the site of an earlier temple dedicated to Artemis and once had 8x20 columns. Impressive capitals remain in situ which are richly decorated with swirls and swastikas. The building was unlike any in mainland Greece and is further evidence that the colonies of ancient Greece went on their own road of political and artistic development to become fully independent and influential cities in their own right

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PLACES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD: Metapontum/Metaponto (Italy) 

METAPONTUM, located on the southern coast of Basilicata, Italy, was an Achaean colony founded in the late 8th century BCE. Thriving on agriculture and trade, the city became one of the most prosperous colonies in Magna Graecia. Today, the best surviving evidence of Metapontum’s importance in antiquity is the 6th century BCE Temple of Hera with 15 of its Doric columns still standing.

Metapontum (Greek: Metapontion, modern name: Metaponto) is located on a fertile plain which stretches along the southern coastline of the Basilicata region of southern Italy. The city, situated at the mouths of the Bradano and Basento Rivers, was founded by the Achaeans of the Greek Peloponnese c. 720 BCE as part of the wave of Greek colonizationfrom the 8th century BCE onwards across the entire region of southern Italy.

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Female figurines, Magna Graecia

* Metapontum

* Museo archeologico nazionale, Metaponto

Source: Rabih omeiri / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)

[romegreeceart]

Departing hero

* 7th cntury BCE

* Metapontum

* Magna Graecia

* Monsters Exhibition (Palazzo Massimo, Rome, 2014)

Source: Sailko / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)

[romegreeceart]

Chapter 4: Francesca Silvestrelli, Red-Figure Vases from Metaponto: The Evidence from the Necropoleis Along the Coast Road. "Photo chapter" - 25 pics; a couple of examples below.

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