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  Magna Graecia: Greek Art From South Italy and Sicily > About the Exhibition > Palermo
 
 

Palermo

Although never a Greek colony, Palermo became a repository for many Greek archaeological finds discovered in western Sicily. Founded at the beginning of the 19th century, the Regional Archaeological Museum "A. Salinas" of Palermo acquired one of the most important collections of Western Greek architectural sculpture known. The museum's holdings include famous metopes that decorated the temple friezes of Selinus in southwest Sicily (see cat. nos. 78 and 79) and Greek vases excavated in the ancient cemeteries of Agrigento (see cat. no. 80 and 81).


Daedalic Lamp with Human Head (about 610-600 BC)
Kouros (about 600-580 BC)
Enthroned Goddess with Panther (about 550-500 BC)
Head of a Boy (about 530 BC)
Head of a Woman (about 470-460 BC)
Red-Figure Bell-Krater (about 470-450 BC)
Red-Figure Pelike (about 450-440 BC)

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