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il Tuffatore di Paestum means Paestum’s Diver.
The beatiful fresco of the Diver belongs to the overall work of 5 funerary slabs dated 480-470 AC said “Diver’s Tumb” that you can admire at the Archeological Museum in Paestum.
An unmissable event when I come back for a visit to the temples. The ticket to enter the archaeological area also includes the entrance to the museum and therefore ... you have no excuse to vist it!
Some scenes represented in the tomb recall a convivial frame, interpreting typical patterns and widespread in contemporary ceramics. Ten garlanded men, resting on the typical triclinary beds (le klinai), surprised in symposial poses, animate the depictions of the longer walls. The hands are engaged to support the kylikes, or to hold musical instruments, the aulos or the lyra.
Finally, on the roofing slab there is the famous scene that gave the name to the burial, a theme rarely used and never so abstractly, from Greek art: a naked young man diving, suspended in the air, has passed a structure similar to a trampoline and is about to enter a body of water.
Almost all experts agree in attributing to the dive the symbolic meaning of the passage from death to the afterlife.
SOURCE: Wikipedia
The Archaelogical Park of Paestum (that includes the Museum and the Archaelogical Area) is open every day – except 25 December and 1st January) from 08.30 AM to 7.30 PM (last ticket is issued at 6.50 PM).
Ticket prices:
December - February |
regular € 6 / reducted € 2 |
March - November |
regular € 12 / reducted € 2 |
Cache
To reach the cache is not necessary to pay the ticket and enter the archealogical area or the Museum. It’s advisable.
Take a seat at the bench in front of the Diver’s slab and admire it.
A kind description of your impression of “Tuffatore di Paestum” on the logbook is really welcome.
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