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Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Basilica Description An account of the resource Location: Paestum Date: second half of the second century BC Details: In 273, the Romans established a Latin colony at Paestum. (The city was originally called Poseidonia by its Greek inhabitants.) As in other Latin colonies, the settlers grafted Roman-style civic structures on top of the older city, in the process transforming the original Greek layout of the town. The basilica, like similar structures in Rome, was a place where city officials performed many of their duties. This was a place where legal proceedings took place and business was transacted; it also may have housed public archives. (Note that on Paestum site maps, the basilica is labeled as the "curia," perhaps to avoid confusion with the southernmost temple popularly known as "the Basilica.") 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Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Fortifications Description An account of the resource Location: Paestum Date: the walls visible today were probably built between the late fourth and third century BC, when a Roman colony was established here. However, they may have been preceded by an earlier fortification system. Details: The massive fortification walls of Paestum once stood about 7 meters (~23 feet) tall--or taller--and were 5-6 meters (15-20 feet) thick. They stretched nearly 5 km (~3 miles) around the city. They had 28 towers and four main gates. The wall is ashlar (which basically means that it was made of rectangular dressed stones) and made from local travertine stone. There was a large ditch in front of the walls, as was common in Hellenistic fortifications. 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Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Amphitheater Description An account of the resource Location: Paestum Date: c. 100-50 BC Details: The amphitheater at Paestum was built in the mid-late first century BC, making it one of the earliest extant Roman amphitheaters, and reflects the growing popularity of these structures in the late Roman Republic. Only half of the amphitheater is visible, as half was covered over by a modern road. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/239ff41fe37ed5c189b4542453bada11.jpg 7658efdc70b1a66ed96f50aab44df0f4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photo by Gabriel Baker. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/9f32bd40159470e61a777b556ad5fe5c.jpg ba16423627c6342cfe973a24718afcf2 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Photo by Gabriel Baker. Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Heroon Description An account of the resource Location: Paestum Date: c. 520-510 BC Details: Greek settlers founded Poseidonia (later called Paestum) around 600 BC. One of the earliest civic structures is the heroon, a square, roofed chamber that was carved out of bedrock near the agora (marketplace). An altar was likely located in front of the structure, to the east. When excavated, the structure was found to be filled with bronze vases and Athenian black-figure pottery. The structure has been interpreted as a heroon, or shrine built to honor the founding hero of the city. When the Greek city fell under the sway of Lucanians (local Italian peoples) and then the Romans, the heroon was respectfully surrounded with an enclosure and covered over with earth. 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Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tomb of the Diver Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum <br />Date: 480-470 BC <br />Details: The so-called Tomb of the Diver was discovered about a mile (1.5 km) south of the ruins of Paestum. The tomb consisted of a chamber built from five stone slabs--one for each of the walls and one for the roof--and covered with plaster. They feature one of the earliest and best preserved examples of Greek monumental painting. <br /><br />The walls of the tomb depict a symposium, an important social gathering for aristocrats in ancient Greek communities. Participants at symposia would recline together on couches after a meal to enjoy drinking, poetry, music, and conversation. One of the men portrayed in this tomb holds a lyre--an instrument which was used to accompany lyric poetry--and a lyre was one of the grave goods in this tomb. The symposium scene clearly connects the tomb's occupant to the elite, male culture that was prevalent across the Greek world in this period. <br /><br />On the other hand, the tomb equally indicates connections to Italian cultural traditions. The covering slab features the painting of the eponymous diver, after whom the tomb is named. It may symbolize the diver metaphorically "diving" into the afterlife, transitioning from life to death, paralleling scenes in Etruscan art (e.g. the diver scene in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing). It has also been argued that the local inhabitant was of Italian origin, thus attesting to the cross-cultural contact that characterized Paestum (Greek Poseidonia) from an early date. <br /><br />Further reading:  <br />Beaulieu, M.-C. 2016. <em>The Sea in the Greek Imagination</em>. University of Pennsylvania Press. <br /><br />Tuck, S. K. 2015. <em>A History of Roman Art</em>. Wiley-Blackwell. <br /><br />Robinson, E.G.D. 2011. "Identity in the Tomb of the Diver at Poseidonia." In M. Gleba and H. W. Hornaes (eds.), <em>Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Communities</em>. Oxbow Books. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/86f4225075b705f7cea76e90728f41f1.jpg c2430c667167605a22804c443c2a7c05 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/3aef824d07b510846aeef415518389ba.jpg 14137fb4e937d19cba822220ebf58bce Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Battle Scene - Tomb Painting, Andriuolo Tomb 114 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 330-320 BC Details: Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/5413cc9381378ca39cecaf8b93dd8d5a.jpg 9610a0a6a97f1e24b0bf49686526d4be Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Attic Black-Figure Lekythos Depicting Theseus vs. Minotaur - Santa Venera Tomb 33 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: late 6th century BC Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/d317ab8b56cf80778b48a74fb67fc56c.jpg 91f7146d6aead3fe37369252ec9268d9 https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/15cf99fe493bebe8fe8a6f2fb9114aaf.jpg f631c47538044e479e4c6cedbe58b2e4 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Duel - Tomb Painting, Andriuolo Tomb 4 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum <br />Date: late 4th century BC <br /><br />Details: The tomb frescoes of fourth century Paestum vividly express a mixture of cultures, drawing from Greek, Lucanian/south Italic, and Etruscan traditions. <br />Funerary games, such as dueling, boxing, and chariot racing, are commonly depicted in these paintings, celebrating the lives of the deceased and the martial virtues valued by Lucanian society. Images of dueling and gladiatorial combat, as pictured in this tomb, seem to have their origins particularly in Italic funerary traditions. However, note that the combatants pictured here wield both Greek and Italic military equipment. The combatant on the left appears to wear an Attic helmet, popular in the Greek east, while his opponent on the right wears an Italo-Corinthian helmet was used in Italy. Both wield a large hoplite shield (hoplon) and seem to wear the type of linen armor (linothorax) used in Greece and Macedonia.<br />Greek and Etruscan traditions peak out elsewhere: the thick red border at the bottom of the image (called a "dado") is well known from Etruscan art, where it was employed to mark off the base of walls; on the other hand, the red spheres hanging around the fighters are almost certainly pomegranates, which were "associated with death and rebirth in Greek iconongraphy as in the story of Persephone eating pomegranate in the underworld" (Tuck, 57).<br /><br />Further reading:<br />Tuck, Steven L. <em>A History of Roman Art. </em>Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/06c80a3a83cc8ffadf8045d4d31a45ae.jpg cbcbc5a4c42c3cff0122ce341b9a35d5 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Duel - Tomb Painting, Andriuolo Tomb 24 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 370-360 BC Detail: Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License https://gabrieldavidbaker.com/digital-exhibit/files/original/673b768c3e2dc3a5d440b87098096104.jpg c50c94dda33bf0f47baa2ca287b99367 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Paestum Archaeological Site & Museum Description An account of the resource Poseidonia (later known as Paestum) was established around 600 BC by colonists from Sybaris, an older Greek colony on the south Italian coast. The town seems to have flourished in the intervening centuries, judging from its significant architectural remains--most famously its three large temples, of which impressive ruins survive. By 400 BC the city had taken on a large number of Lucanians, an Italian people from the surrounding region that spoke an Oscan language. While ancient authors like Strabo (and many modern authors) depict this as a Lucanian "conquest" or "occupation," most scholars now posit that the two cultures existed side-by-side, producing new, blended traditions (as seen in e.g. their tomb paintings). From 280-275 BC, the city sided with Pyrrhus of Epirus, a warrior-king who invaded from the Greek east, in his war against Rome. The Romans were ultimately victorious, and Poseidonia/Paestum became the site of a Roman colony in 273 BC. As a Roman colony, the civic architecture significantly changed to fall more in line with Roman models, pointing to the power and influence of the new Roman colonists. The city remained inhabited well into the Roman imperial period and into the early middle ages, though it was gradually abandoned by the seventh century. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Hunting Scene - Arcioni (?) Tomb 1 Description An account of the resource Location: National Archaeological Museum of Paestum Date: 375-350 BC (?)* Detail: Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gabriel Baker Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License