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Aeolian Islands - The Aeolian museum, the upper floor

Upper floor: Rooms XXI- XXVI – Greek and Roman burial ground from the district of Diana (Lipari). Excavations involved the exploration of about 3000 tombs and supplied a vast number of art exhibits for the Aeolian Museum, above all ceramics and painted terracotta pieces. The first tombs slightly post-date the foundation of the Greek colony (580 BC). The tombs with the richest array of funerla objects are those dating from the fourth century BC. A bowl dating from that century shows the episode from the Odissey where Maron, the priest of Apollo, gives Ulysses the flask of wine that he uses to make Polyphemus drunk. One of the bowls from the burial ground in Lipari is certainly the work of the ceramic artist called Assteas: it shows a wooden stage and a backdrop decorated with garlands and some actors performing before their god, Dionysos.

Another decorated bowl shows a scene from the story of Hyppolitus: the young men is riding a chariot drawn by four fiery steds across a beach. The ... Read More...