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Title and date Corinthian votive tablet (Pinax), about 575-550 b.C. Author Unknown (or Korinthios) Technique Painting on tablet Theme Sacrifice to deity ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE TECHNIQUE Only a few paintings on wooden tablets have...

Title and date Saffron gatherers about XIX century b.C. Author Unknown Technique Fresco Theme The saffron harvest GENERAL INFORMATION In the archeological site of Akrotiri, on the today known island of Santorini, inside a three floor...

This limestone sarcophagus was found in an aristocratic grave and is supposed to be used for sacred ceremonies. The paintings around it show two ritual scenes of a sacred ceremony: a bull sacrifice to the Gods.

fish as represented in a glass panel with eastern origins. Mediterranean as a symbol of unity of different peoples.

In the ancient Greece, sacrifices of pigs took place in very important periods of the social and the individual life, such as alliance stipulations between kings, weddings and, every year, in October, during the celebration of the ritual ceremony in honour of the Goddess Demetra

We are taken to visit a bar (lat. popina) in the ancient harbour of Rome, Ostia. We can first see earthenware jugs (lat. dolia) as big as to contain lt. 1000 of wine each, a counter and shelves where to keep pitchers and pots, 2 basins to wash dishes and glasses, and a sign, a fresco showing customers what they could enjoy there, food, basically legumes and vegetables, wine and music.