Votive disc. Divided into four sectors by a caduceus, lightning bolt, club, and four-armed torch; includes various magic symbols, including a kithara.
Terracotta.
Taranto, 3rd c. BCE
Taranto, Museo Nazionale Archaeologico, inv. 204787
on display at the Museo Archeologico Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce, for the exhibit "La Musica nella Japigia di Aristosseno" (23 April - 23 July 2009)
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Apulian Red Figure bell krater, detail: Orpheus.
Pronomos Painter.
Taranto, Via C. Battisti, 29/5/1951
First quarter of the 4th c. BCE
Taranto, Museo Nazionale Archeologico, inv. 52407
on display at the Museo Archeologico Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce, for the exhibit "La Musica nella Japigia di Aristosseno" (23 April - 23 July 2009)
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Miniature articulated bronze skeleton
from Vereto (ancient Iria), tomb from excavations of 1961
1st c. BCE
Museo Archeologico Provinciale Sigismondo Castromediano, Lecce
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Tortoise shell ekeion (sound box) of a lyre, with iron chordotonon (tailpiece for attaching the strings)
from Roca Vecchia (Melendugno (LE)), from a tomb of 13/11/1931
5th c. BCE
Lecce, Museo Provinciale, inv. 3935
On display in the exhibit "La Musica nella Japigia di Aristosseno" (23 April - 23 July 2009)
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Brown banded hydria
Late 6th - first half of 5th c. BCE
From Alezio (ancient Alytia) in Puglia
Museo Archeologico Provinciale 'S. Castromediano', Lecce
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