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Sicily: Culture and Conquest
Exhibition Dates: 21 April – 14 August 2016
Venue: Gallery 35, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG UK
List of objects proposed for protection under Part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (protection of cultural
objects on loan).
Terracotta altar with three woman and a lioness mauling a bull
Sop.BL 30
Terracotta, Sicily, 500BC
Height: 1140mm
Length: 750mm
Depth: 350mm
Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Gela, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1, 93012 Gela
Provenance: Excavated and deposited in Museo Archeologico Regionale, Gela in 1999.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated
Publications:
R. Panvini, Gela arcaica. Are Divinità Tiranni, Roma 2000.
R. Panvini and L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C (Palermo 2009),
419-420.
Antefix in the form of a Gorgoneion
35688
Terracotta, Sicily, about 500BC
Height: 385mm
Length: 380mm
Depth: 880mm
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Regionale Archeologico, Gela, after official excavation in
1973
Publications:
E. De Miro and G. Fiorentini, Kokalos 1976–7, 430–47, fig.36.
Michael J. Bennett Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily, Cleveland ,
261,no.62.
R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, 166-7, no.VI/35.
Terracotta head of horse
8585
Terracotta , Sicily, 490-480BC
Height: 250mm
Length: 110mm
Length: 425mm
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Gela, soon after excavation in
1954.
Publications:
P. Orlandini,’ Nuovi acroteri a forma di cavallo e cavaliere dalla acropoli di Gela’ P.E.Arias,
Scritti in onore di Guido Libertini.
P. Griffo, Sulle orme della civiltà gelese, Firenze 1958, 117-128, plate 3, figs.1-3.
R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C., 381,no.TA/4.
Sicily: culture and conquest, 21 April – 14 August 2016, The British Museum
List of objects proposed f or protection under Part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enf orcement Act 2007 (protection of cultural objects on loan)
Terracotta bust
309
Terracotta, Sicily, about 480BC
Height: 342mm
Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24,
90133 Palermo, Italy
Provenance: Discovered between 1915 and 1926 as part of a votive deposit found by the
archaeologist Gabrici Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas soon
after discovery.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas
Publications:
E. Gabrici, “Il santuario della Malophoros a Selinunte,” MonAnt 32, 1927,278-9, plate 65.1.
E. Wiederkehr Schuler, Les protomés féminines du sanctuaire de la Malophoros à Sélinonte,
Naples 2004, 202-3, plates 58-9.
R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, Palermo 2009,
413,no.TA/63.
Marble relief of a charioteer
1553
Marble, Sicily, about 440 – 430 BC
Height: 280mm
Width: 400mm
Provenance: Originally in Baron Don Antonio Astuto's collection housed at Noto, Sicily. He
acquired objects from Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 –1818) the Italian antiquarian and art
historian. The collection of Baron Astuto was purchased in 1861 by the Royal Goverment of
the Bourbons. In 1862 the collection was transferred to the Museo dell’Università a Palermo
and then in the same year in the Real Museo , the current Museo “Antonino Salinas".
Acquired in1862 Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas
Publications:
Referred to in E.Reisch - Griechische Weihgeschenke, Wien 1890, 50, note 5.
K.Morgan, ‘Imaginary Kings: Visions of Monarchy in Sicilian Literature from Pindar to
Theokritos.’ In Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, 100, fig.55.
Limestone metope from Selinunte
3919
Limestone, Sicily, about 550BC
Height: 840mm
Width: 685mm
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas after excavation
in 1968.
Publications:
V. Tusa, ‘Due nuove metope arcaiche da Selinunt’e, in Arch. Class., XXI, 1969, 153.
V.Tusa, La scultura di pietra di Selinunte,Palermo, 1983,110-11, plate 28-9.
C.Marconi, Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The
Metopes of Selinus103-109 and 228-9
Fragment of a Metope from Temple C
NI 3899
Limstone, Sicily, about 540 – 500 BC
Height: 460mm
Width 470mm
Provenance: Acquired in 1823 shortly after excavation by English explorers, S.Angell and
T.Evans
Publications:
S.Angell and T.Evans Sculptured metopes discovered amongst the ruins of the temples of
the ancient city of Selinus in Sicily : by William Harris and Samuel Angell, in the year 1823.
London 1826, 53, plate 9.4.
Marble head from the metopes of Temple E at Selinunte
NI3884
Marble, Sicily, about 460 BC
Height: 260mm
Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas shortly after discovery in 18312
Publications:
Serradifalco, Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, duca di, Le antichità della Sicilia II, Palermo
1834, drawing of head on plate 35.
Lo stile severo in Sicilia: Dall' apogeo della tirannide alla prima democrazia, Palermo 1990,
201, no.32
C.Marconi, Selinunte. Le metope dell'Heraion, 159-161, no.18.
Bilingual Inscription for Inscriptions workshop
NI 3574
Marble, likely Palermo, Sicily, 100 BC – AD 100
Height: 155mm
Width 245mm
Depth:35mm
Provenance: The inscription is mentioned as part of the collection of the Museo Salnitriano in
Palermo, an antiquarian collection, in 1762. It is likely that the inscription transferred with the
rest of that collection to what is now the Museo Archeologico Antonio Salinas in Palermo in
1861-3, becoming integrated in the national collection.
Publications:
Castelli, Gabriele Lancillotto, Principe di Torremuzza (1762) Le antiche iscrizioni di Palermo.
Palermo, p. 19
O. Tribulato (2011) The Stone-Cutter’s Bilingual Inscription from Palermo (IG XIV 297 = CIL X
7296): a New Interpretation, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 177.2, 131-140
On transfer of the collection of the Museo Salnitriano to the Museo Archeologico A Salinas,
see official museum website: http://www.regione.sicilia.it/bbccaa/salinas/pagine/col_salnit.htm
Gold Necklace from Campobello di Mazara hoard
NI30650
Gold, Campobello di Mazara, Sicily, 7th-9th C AD
Length: 312mm
Provenance: Bought by Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale from owner/finder in 1878
Publications:
A. Salinas (1886) Le collane bizantine del Museo di Palermo rinvenute a Campobello di
Mazara, Palermo.
M. A. Lima (1997) Oreficerie del Museo Archeologico ‘Antonio Salinas’ di Palermo, II, in
QuadMuseoSalinas 3, p 81-102.
I. Baldini Lippolis (1999) L’oreficeria nell’impero di Costantinopoli tra IV e VII secolo, Bari, p 41.
M. A. Lima (1999) Oreficerie del Museo Archeologico ‘Antonio Salinas’ di Palermo, II, in
QuadMuseoSalinas 5, p 59-71.
L. Gandolfo (2014) L’instancabile raccoglitore, in F. Spatafora and L. Gandolfo (eds) Del
Museo di Palermo e del suo avvenire. Il Salinas ricorda Salinas, 1914-2014, Palermo, p 29.
Ceramic dinos with triskeles
AG 4328
Ceramic, Sicily, 650 – 600 BC
Height: 177mm
Depth: 325mm
Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Contrada San Nicola, 12, Agrigento,
92100, Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Agrigento, soon after discovery
during official excavation, prior to 1962.
Publications:
E. De Miro - La fondazione di Agrigento e l'ellenizzazione fra il Salso ed il Platani,in Kokalos ,
VIII 1962, plate 48, figs.1-3.
Sizilien. Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi: Katalog zur Ausstellung der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2008), 257, cat.no.70.
R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, Palermo 2009, 124-5,
no.VII/131.
Marble statue of a warrior
Ag 217
Marble, Sicily, about 480 BC
Height: 861mm
Lent by: Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Contrada San Nicola, 12,
Agrigento, 92100, Italy
Provenance: The torso, thigh and head were discovered separately, between 1940- 1968.
Each piece acquired soon after discovery by Museo Archeologico Regionale Agrigento.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Agrigento after 1940.
Publications:
Before all sections were joined:
Torso published in P.Griffo, Up-to-date guide for the visitor to the monuments of Agrigento,
Agrigento 1956, fig.26-27.
Head published in Fuchs, W. ‘Archäologische Forschungen und Funde in Sizilien 1955 bis
1964’, in AA 1964, 719-20.
After restoration:
162-3, cat.no.2.
M.Barbanera, Il guerriero di Agrigento , Rome 1995.
Relief with Tree of Life, 9th century, marble
20584
Marble, Sicily, 800-900 AD
Height: 770mm
Width: 1630mm
Depth: 70 – 150mm
Lent by: Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Contrada San Nicola, 12,
Agrigento, 92100, Italy
Provenance: Discovered during renovation works of a 19th-century villa, now the Villa
Athena, north of the Temple of Concord, next to the area of the early Christian and Byzantine
necropolis. It was registered in Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Agrigento
in 1981, but already published in 1980, so is likely to have been found there in the late
1970s.
Publications:
Ernesto De Miro, "Agrigento paleocristiana e bizantina", Felix Ravenna, 1980, pp. 131-171.
R.M. Bonacasa Carra, Un rilievo bizantino del Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento,
Quaderni dell’Istituto di archeologia della Facoltà di Lettere dell’Università di Messina 4, 1989,
pp. 101-109.
E. Vitale (2008) Relief mit Lebensbaum, in: (n.a.) Sizilien. Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi.
Muenchen, 290-291 – for which it was part of the Sizilien exhibition in Bonn.
Arab terracotta bowl with peacock
Terracotta, Palermo, Sicily, 900-1000 AD
Diameter: 250mm
Depth: 100mm
Lent by: Galleria Regionale Della Sicilia (Palazzo Abatellis), Via Alloro, 4, Palermo, Italy
Provenance: Discovered, likely in the 1970s, in excavations at the Church of San Giovanni
degli Eremiti, Palermo and transferred to the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia di Palazzo
Abatellis.
Publications:
F. GABRIELI , U. SCERRATO (a cura di), Gli Arabi in Italia, 1985 (2° ediz.), fig. 183.
I. Siede (2010) Teller mit gelber Glasur, in: A. Wieczorek, B. Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter
(Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte. Ausstellungskatalog über die Staufer-Ausstellung im
Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 86, nr. III.D.4.
Painted coffer of Cefalu Cathedral
1189
Wood, Cathedral of Cefalù, Sicily, c. 1150
Height: 330mm
Width: 500mm
Provenance: This panel is likely to be the one that fell down from the ceiling of the Cathedral
of Cefalù in 1903 and was subsequently transferred to the Galleria Regionale di Palazzo
Abatellis, Palermo, as Sicily’s museum for medieval antiquities. If not, the panel that is being
lent is described as being in the Museo Nazionale di Palermo in 1941.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo
Publications:
V. Lanza (1941) Saggio sui soffitti siciliani dal sec. XII al XVII, Attti dell’Accademia di Scienze,
Letter ed Arti di Palermo 4.1, 178-219.M. Andaloro (1995) Figura di donna entro un cerchio e
motive ornamentale entro un mandorla, in: C.A. Di Stefano and M. Andaloro (eds) Federico e
la Sicilia: dalla Terra alla Corona. Catalogo della Mostra al Real Albergo dei Poveri in Palermo,
Siracusa 486-488.
C. Braun (2010) Bemalte Tafel: Weibliche Figur in Kreis und Ornament in Mandorla, in: A.
Wieczorek, B. Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter (Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte.
Ausstellungskatalog über die Staufer-Ausstellung im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 1667.
Inlaid Arabic Inscriptions from Capella Palatina
5104
Marble, Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily, 1130AD
Height: 327mm
Width: 1845mm
Depth: 48mm
Provenance:Given to the Regio Museo di Palermo (renamed Museo Nazionale di Palermo in
1866) by king Vittorio Emanuele in 1863.
Publications:
Lagumina, B.,“Iscrizione araba del Re Ruggiero scoperta alla Cappella Palatina in Palermo”,
Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rendiconti della classe di Scienze Morali, 1893, 231234;
J. Johns (2006) Tre Lastre Frammentarie con Iscrizioni Arabe in Lode di Ruggero II dal
Palazzo di Palermo, in: M. Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal
Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 498-501. With complete
bibliography going back to 1875.
Wooden inlay chest cover or door from Palazzo dei Normanni
5223
Wood, Palermo, Sicily, 12th century AD
Height: 1340mm
Width: 735mm
Provenance: Given to the Museum by king Vittorio Emanuele, potentially in 1863, when also
the inscriptions from the Cappella Palatina were donated to the Museum (see that form).
Publications:
S. Piazza (2006) Pannello di Soffittatura dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo, in: M. Andaloro (ed.)
Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I,
Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 543-544. With complete bibliography going back to 1875.
Telamon from Monte Iato
S 11
Limestone, Sicily, about 300 BC
Height: 1990mm
Lent by: Antiquarium S Cipirello (PA), Via Roma, 320, 90040 San Cipirello PA, Italy
Provenance: Discovered through official excavation in c.1970 by Swiss and Sicilian
archaeologists and acquired by Antiquarium San Cipirello (PA) soon after.
Publications:
Ed. H. Bloesch and H. P. Isler Studia Ietina. 1. Die Stützfiguren des griechischen Theaters.
Gestempelte Ziegel. Rezepte vom Monte Iato, 13-48.
The Western Greeks, exhibition catalogue, Venice,1996, 748, cat.no.376 I.
Bronze rostra from Levanzo
Egadi 4
Bronze, Italy, 243-241 BC
Height: 700mm
Wight: 500mm
Lent by: Soprintendenza per i Beni culturali e ambientali del Mare
Palazzetto Mirto - Via Lungarini, 9, Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo, 4521 (Istituto Roosevelt)
Palermo 90100, Italy
Provenance: Discovered as a result of official excavations in 2011
Publications:
S. Tusa and J. Royal (2012) “The landscape of the naval battle at the Egadi Islands (241
BC)", Journal of Roman Archaeology 25: 7-48.
http://rpmnautical.org/egadi4ram.html
Oil lamp
G.E. 19594
Palermo, 900-1000 AD
Lent by: SoprIntendeza di Palermo, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA.
Via Calvi, 13, 90139 – Palermo
Provenance: Excavated at Palazzo Sambuca, Palermo, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo in
2004.
Publications:
F. Spatafora, Da Panormos a Balarm, 2005, p. 67
Oil lamp
G.E. 19591
Provenance: Excavated between 2003-2005 at Palazzo Chiaramonti-Steri, Palermo (registered
as part of excavation layer US 404.19).
Publications:
Unpublished
Oil lamp
G.E. 19593
Provenance: Excavated at Palazzo Sambuca, Palermo, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo in
2004.
Publications:
Oil lamp
G.E. 19592
Excavated at Palazzo Sambuca, Palermo, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo in 2004.
Publications:
Bowl with bull decoration
G.E. 19286
Terracotta, Palermo, Sicily, 900-1000 AD
Depth: 100mm
Diameter: 300mm
Provenance: Excavated in excavations at the church and monastery of the Magione, Palermo,
in 1994, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo.
Publications:
F. D'Angelo, I. Garofano, Scavi al Convento della SS. Trinità (Magione) di Palermo, in C.A.
DI STEFANO, A. CADEI (a cura di), Federico e la Sicilia dalla terra alla corona, 1995, pp.
335-341, catalogue nr. P44.
Marble inlaid tombstone with eulogy in four languages
19304
Marble, Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Palermo, Sicily , 1149
Width: 410mm
Length: 320mm
Depth: 45mm max
Provenance: Acquired before 1890.The inscription was still recorded in the Chiesa di S.
Michele Arcangelo (which is now part of the Biblioteca Comunale) in 1813, but by 1890 was
published as being part of the collection of the Museo Nazionale di Palermo, the museum
where all objects were housed until the ‘ancient collections’ split from the ‘medieval
collections’.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unknown, likely the Museo Nazionale di Palermo or the
Galleri Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis.
Publications:
S. Morso (1813) Spiegazione di due lapidi esistenti nella Chiesa di S. Michele Arcangelo.
Palermo.
Lagumina, B. (1890) Nota sulla iscrizione quadrilingue esistente nel Museo Nazionale di
Palermo, Archivio Storico Siciliano 15, 108-110.
J. Johns (2006) Lapidi Sepolcrali in Memoria di Anna e Drogo, Genitori di Grisanto, in: M.
Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo.
Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 519-523. (With complete bibliography going back to
1813).
Limestone stele from a tomb doorway
8922
Limestone, Sicily, 2000 BC
Height: 970mm
Width: 580mm (top); 690mm (bottom)
Depth: 80-90mm; though thicker where relief in centre
Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR,
Italy
Provenance: Acquired after official excavations by Paolo Orsi, who did a sketch of the tomb
slab in his notebooks on 24 May 1891.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
Publications:
P.Orsi, ‘La necropolis sicula di Castelluccio’, in Bollettino di paleontologia Italiana 19, 1892, 134 and 67-84.
Luigi Bernabo Brea Sicily before the Greeks, London 1957, 109,fig.33.
R.Leighton, Sicily Before History, London 1999, 127,fig.60.
A.Crispino,’ Paolo Orsi innovatore.Lo scavo di Castelluccio di Noto e la nuovametodologia
negli studi preistorici in Sicilia’, XLVI Riunione Scienti ca -150 anni di preistoria e
protostoria in Italia, 349-354. Drawing by Orsi of tomb door on p351.
Pedestalled basin from Thapsos
14731
Sicily, about 1500 – 1400 BC
Height: 860-870mm
Depth: 570mm (inc. handle)
Diamester: 510mm
Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after official
excavation in c.1895
Publications:
Orsi P. 1895. “Thapsos,” Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei 6: 89–150, shown page 119, fig.28.
Published in exhibition catalaogue, Sizilien. Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi: Katalog zur
Ausstellung der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2008),
entry no.10.
Gold ring with suckling calf
45905
Gold, Sicily, about 600 BC
Height: 160mm
Width: 350mm
Italy
Provenance: Found on land near tombs at Sant’Angelo Muxaro in 1931, and acquired by
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi shortly afterwards.
Publications:
P.Orsi, ‘La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro (Agrigento) e cosa essa ci dice di nuovo nella
questione sicula’, Atti Regia Academia Scienze Lettere ant.Palermo, XVII, fasc.III, 7,fig.3.
B.Pace, ‘Ori della reggia sicana di Camico’, in Arch. Ephem., 1953-4, 1, 273-288
G. Rizza and D.Palermo, La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro: scavi Orsi-Zanotti Bianco 19311932, Catania 2004,
Gold ring with wolf
46517
Gold, Sicily, about 600 BC
Height: 180mm
Width: 360mm
Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after discovery in
1931 at an official excavation.
Publications:
P.Orsi, ‘La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro (Agrigento) e cosa essa ci dice di nuovo nella
questione sicula’, Atti Regia Academia Scienze Lettere ant.Palermo, XVII, fasc.III,13,fig.8.
B.Pace, ‘Ori della reggia sicana di Camico’, in Arch. Ephem., 1953-4, 1, 273-288
G. Rizza and D.Palermo, La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro: scavi Orsi-Zanotti Bianco 19311932
Shard of Polychrome pottery from a dinos
84813
Sicily, about 650 BC
Height: 200mm
Width: 195mm
Depth: 17mm
Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after discovery in
1964 as part if official excavations.
Publications:
F. Villard ‘, La céramique archaïque de Mégara Hyblaea’, Kokalos 10-11, 1964-5,603-608,
plate 80.
R. Panvini and L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C (Palermo 2009), 118.
M.Denoyelle and M.Iozzo, La ceramique grecque d'italie meridionale et de sicile, Paris 2009,
64,fig.68.
Altar with Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus
84819
Terracotta, Sicily, about 550 BC
Height: 170mm
Width: 430mm
Depth: 180mm
Italy
Provenance:
Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi prior to 1973. Likely to have been
acquired soon after discovery.
Publications:
Bernabo Brea, Megara Hyblaea, in G. Voza, "Archeologia della Sicilia Sud-Orientale, exhibition
catalogue, Naples 1973, 169, no.480, plate 52.
Vallet, G., Villard, F. and Auberson, P, Megara Hyblaea, 3, Rome 1983, p168, fig.79.
R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, Palermo 2009, 266,
no.VI/232.
Terracotta altar with lion attacking a bull
18670
Terracotta altar, Sicily, about 520 – 500 BC
Height: 215mm
Width: 515mm
Depth: 200mm
Italy
Provenance:
Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi after official excavation in 1898.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi
Publications:
G. Libertini, Centuripe, Catania 1926, 129-132, plate 50.
G.Pugliese Carratelli, The Western Greeks (exhibition catalogue) Venice 1996, 684, cat.no.97.
R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C, 263,no.VI/226
Vessel from Megara Hyblaea in Syrcause
96918
Terracotta, Sicily, about 675 BC
Height: 570mm
Diameter: 430mm (incl.handles)
Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi following official
excavation, prior to 1973, when it was first published.
Publications:
Bernabo Brea, Megara Hyblaea, in G. Voza, "Bilancio degli Archeologia della Sicilia SudOrientale, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1973, 166-7, plate 53.
R. Panvini and L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C (Palermo 2009), 118.
M.Denoyelle and M.Iozzo, La ceramique grecque d'italie meridionale et de sicile, Paris 2009,
64,plate.68.
Terracotta roof decoration
23831 and 23708
Terracotta, origin unknown, 530 BC
Height: 900mm
Width: 1240mm
Depth: 512mm
Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after official
excavation in 1911
Publications:
P.Orsi, Di una anonima citta siculo-greca a Monte S. Mauro presso Caltagirone." MonAnt 20,
1911, 782, fig.43, plate 5.
C. Wikander, Sicilian Architectural Terracottas: a reappraisal ,Stockholm 1986, 39.no.35,
fig.10.
C.Ciurcina, ‘Rapporti tra le terrecotte architettoniche della Sicilia Orientale e quelle dell'Italia
centrale’, in Deliciae Fictilès. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Central
Italie Architectural Terracottas at the Swedish Institute in Rome, 1990 (Acta Instituti Romani
Regni Sueciae, L), Stockholm 1993, 33,fig.12.
Limestone model of temple
20087
Limestone, Sicily, 500 – 450 BC
Height: 580mm
Width: 627mm
Depth: 685mm
Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after excavation,
before 1900.
Publications:
P. Orsi, ‘Gela. Frammenti archeologici’, in NSc, 1900, 380, fig.3.
De Mire - Fr. Villard, Sicile grecque, Paris 1955, 287,plate72
R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C.387,no.TA/14.
Marble helmeted head in relief from Camarina, recut from earlier sculpture
24882
Marble, Sicily, about 440 – 430 BC
Height: 296mm
Width: 265mm
Italy
Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi shortly after find date
in 1905
Publications:
P.Orsi, Miscellanea di archeologia, storia e filologia dedicata al Prof. Antonino Salinas nel LX
anniversario del suo insegnamento accademico, 1906, 25, plate1.
170, no.7.
Pyxis from Centuripe
49051
Terracotta, Sicily, 300 BC – 200 BC
Height: 660mm
Width: 510mm (including handles)
Length: 380mm (max diam of lid)
Italy
Provenance: Found by a farmer on his land near the ancient necropolis prior to 1929.
Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi on 17th November 1929.
Publications:
Unpublished
Letter of Adelasia, wife of Roger I, bilingual; earliest document on paper in Europe
Doc.9
Paper, Messina, Sicily, 1109
Height: 380mm
Width: 369mm
Lent by: Archivio di Stato di Palermo, Via Vittorio Emanuele 31, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Provenance: The document is a decree by Adelaide del Vasto, issued in Messina on 6
March 1109, instructing local officers to protect the abbey of San Filippo di Fragalà, near
Enna. It is more than just probable that the decree remained in the tabularium of the abbey
until their archives were moved to the Archivio di Stato in 1857.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Archivio di Stato di Palermo
Publications:
La Mantia, Giuseppe (1908) Il Primo documento in carta (contessa Adelaide, 1109) esistente
in Sicilia e rimasto sinora sconosciuto. Palermo.
Displayed in Reiss-Engelhorrn Museum (2010-2011) in Staufer und Italien exhibition. See V.
Tuerck (2010) Mandat in griechischer und arabischer Sprache in: A. Wieczorek, B.
Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter (Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte. Ausstellungskatalog über
die Staufer-Ausstellung im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 165-6, nr. IV.C.1.9
Copper enamelled plaque showing Roger II crowned by Saint Nicholas
Copper and enamell, Bari, Italy, 1139-1154
Height: 244mm
Width: 234 mm
Lent by: Museo Nicolaiano, Largo Abate Elia, 13 , 70122 Bari, Italy
Provenance: Been at the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari since between 1139 and 1154.
Transferred to the Basilica Treasury in early 20th century (was still in place in 1899, see
Bertaux, Monuments Piot, 1899). Transferred to Museo Nicolaiano, around 2010 (was
previously Museo Diocesano, opened in 1966).
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Bari Cathedral Treasury
Publications:
S. Di Sciascio (2006) Placca con S. Nicola che Incorona Ruggero II, in: M. Andaloro (ed.)
Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I,
Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 216-217.See there for complete bibliography going back to
1884.
Cameo Bust of Costanza D'Altaville
inv. 47/1
Agate, Sicily / Southern Italy, 1200-1250
Height: 45mm(without base)
Lent by: Santarelli Foundation, Via di Porta Lavernale, 26, 00153 – Rome
Provenance: Acquired from the private collection of academic Antonio Giuliano by the
Santarelli Foundation in 26 February 2002. Cameos lent by Santarelli Foundation to the
Musei Capitolini in Rome from 2010 for study and research. Displayed in Musei Capitolini
from 2012 to present.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Whereabouts unknown. Object has been published
extensively. Reference to relevant databases indicates no evidence of wrongful taking.
Publications:
About the long-term loan to the Musei Capitolini, see:
http://en.museicapitolini.org/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/
palazzo_clementino_caffarelli/collezione_santarelli
Cameo bust has been published in:
A.M. Mellili (1995) Busto di Costanza, in: M.S. Calo Mariani and R. Cassano (eds) Federico II.
Immagine e Potere. Exhibition Catalogue. Venice, 480.
A. Giuliano (2003)”…la luce de la gran Costanza”, in: A. Giuliano (ed.) Studi Normanni e
Federiciani. Rome, 117-122.
A. Gallottini, ed. (2012) La glittica Santarelli ai Musei Capitolini. Intagli, cammei e sigilli.
Exhibition Catalogue. Rome.
Cameo with Eagle
Inv. Belli 20
Sardonyx, Sicily / Southern Italy,1200-1250
Depth: 8.5mm
Diameter: 28mm
Provenance: Acquired from the private collection of Giuliana Belli by the Santarelli
Foundation 6 October 2003. Cameos lent by Santarelli Foundation to Musei Capitolini in
Rome from 2010 for study and research. Displayed in Musei Capitolini from 2012 to present.
Publications:
Info was obtained directly from the Santarelli Foundation
About the long-term loan to the Capitoline Museums, see:
Cameo has been published in:
Exhibition Catalogue. Rome, 227.
Cameo with Leda and Swan
47/28g
Sardonyx, Sicily / Southern Italy,1200-1250
Height: 25.5mm
Width: 20.6mm
Depth: 4.8mm
Provenance: Acquired from the private collection of academic Antonio Giuliano by the
Santarelli Foundation in 26 February 2002. Cameos lent by Santarelli Foundation to Musei
Capitolini in Rome from 2010 for study and research. Displayed in Musei Capitolini from
2012 to present.
Publications:
Info was obtained directly from the Santarelli Foundation
About the long-term loan to the Capitoline Museums, see:
Cameo bust has been published in:
Exhibition Catalogue. Rome.
Marble Bust of Frederick II
Marble, Lanuvio, Italy, 1225-1250
Height: 490mm
Lent by: Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom , Via Valadier 37 , 00193 Rome
Provenance: The bust was probably found in the area of Lanuvio, and was displayed in the
Casino Bonelli since the 18th century, a Baroque villa. It first belonged to the Bonelli family,
afterwards the poet Marianna Dionigi owned the villa and its sculpture. In 1944, the antiquities
were hidden within the villa. Acquired from the Bonelli Collection in 1953 for the Deutsches
Archaeologisches Institut in Rome.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Casino Bonelli
Publications:
G. Kaschnitz-Weinberg (1953/54) Bildnisse Friedrichs II. von Hohenstaufen. Teil I: Der
Kolossalkopf aus Lanuvium, mit Tafel 1-13. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen
Instituts Roemische Abteilung 60/61, 1-21.
Exhibition Catalogue: Die Staufer und Italien. Drei Innovationsregionen im mittelalterlichen
Europa (2010) Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, p. 59-60.
Gold Bracelet, Pantalica Hoard
52.76.1
Gold, Mount Pantalica, Sicily, Ca. AD 650
Height: 31mm
Diameter: 178mm
Lent by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, USA
Provenance: Found at Pantalica, Sicily, 1903, on the site of the anaktoron; Guiseppe Serges,
Sortino, Sicily; J. Pierpont Morgan, Paris and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan(sold
1944); Parke-Bernet Galleries(Morgan Estate, March 22-25, 1944, lot 63); [ Brummer Gallery,
Paris and New York (1944?–sold 1948?)]; Alastair Bradley Martin, New York (1948?–until
1952). Given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Alastair Bradley Martin in1952.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: J. Pierpont Morgan, Parke- Bernet Galleries, Brummer
Gallery
Publications:
P. Orsi (1910) Byzantina Siciliae. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 19, p 63-90 and 462ff.
P. Orsi (1942) Sicilia Bizantina. Rome.
A. M. Fallico (1975) Sul tesoro bizantino di Pantalica. Sileno: rivista de studi classici e cristiani
1, p 311-30.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collectiononline/search/468419?=&imgno=0&tabname=object-information
Gilded bronze falcon
47.101.60
Gilded Bronze, Sicily / Southern Italy, 1200-1220
Height: 279mm
Width: 165mm
Length 79mm
Provenance: Found in Italy, 1925; Dr. Kurt Cassirer, Rome and Berlin (until 1926) ; Paul
Sachs (from 1926) ; Arthur Sachs, Cambridge, Mass. (sold 1946) ; [ Brummer Gallery, Paris
and New York (1946–sold 1947) ]; Bought by Metropolitan Museum of Art from Brummer
Gallery (Paris-New York) in 1947.
Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Arthur Sachs, Cambridge, Mass. (sold 1946)
Publications:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/471295
Reliquary pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily
63.160
Gold, England, 1174 - 1177
Height: 50mm
Width: 31mm
Depth: 7mm
Provenance: Bought by Metropolitan Museum of Art from Piero Tozzi Galleries Inc., New
York in 196; J Pierpont Morgan Collections; formerly collection of E. Germean.
Ownership details 1933-1945: J. Pierpont Morgan collections; collection E. Germean.
Publications: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection
online/search/468600?=&imgno=0&tabname=object-information
T.P.F. Hoving (1965) A Newly Discovered Reliquary of St Thomas Becket, Gesta 4 (Spring):
28-30.
Published and exhibited in Exhibition I Normanni, Populo d’Europa, in Rome, 1994. (n.a.)
Ciondolo-reliquario, in: M. D’Onofrio (ed.) I Normanni, popolo d’Europa 1030-1200. Catalogo
della mostra, Venice, 518.
Published and exhibited in Treasures of Heaven, BM, London, see B. Drake Boehm (2010)
Reliquary Pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily and Bishop Reginald of Bath, in: M. Bagnoli,
H. A. Klein, C. Griffith Mann, J. Robinson (eds) Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics and
devotion in medieval Europe. Exhibition Catalogue, BMP, 186-7, nr. 98.
Cameo of Hercules and the Lion
Inv. 38.150.23
Sardonyx cameo with modern gold frame, Sicily / southern Italy, 1220-1240
Height: 42mm
Width: 36mm
Length: 8mm
Lent by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States
Provenance: Gift of the Milton Weil Collection of 152 cameos and intaglios to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art by his widow Ethel Weil Worgelt in 1938.
Ownership details 1933-1945: The Milton Weil Collection until 1938; then Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
Publications:
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/467644
E. Kris (1932) Catalogue of Postclassical Cameos in the Milton Weil Collection, Vienna: Nr. 8
(with fig. 3).
R. Kahsnitz (2010) Cameo: Herkules erwuergt den nemaeischen Loewen, in: A. Wieczorek, B.
Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter (Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte. Ausstellungskatalog über
die Staufer-Ausstellung im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 86, nr. III.D.4, with
bibliography.
P. Remington (1940) The Milton Weil Collection of Cameos and Intaglios, Bulletin of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art 35, 4, p. 76-80
Marble Inlaid part of Norman Throne
239
Marble, Palermo Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily, 12th Century
Length 1320mm (base)
Height: 430mm (max)
Depth 50mm
Lent by: Museo Diocesano di Palermo, Via M. Bonello, 2, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Provenance: Part of the collection of architectural fragments that were conserved in the store
rooms of the Cathedral and were then transferred to the Museo Diocesano in 1926-7 by
order of Cardinal Alessandro Lualdi, when the Museum was created.
Ownership details 1933-1945: Museo Diocesano di Palermo
Publications:
For the history of the Museum and the transfer of pieces from the Cathedral: P. Palazzotto and
M.C. Di Natale (2008) Il Museo Diocesano di Palermo:), in B. Kulic and G. Randazzo (eds)
Sentire l'Arte. Un'esperienza interculturale nella didattica museale, catalogo della mostra
(Palermo, Palazzo Arcivescovile 23 maggio - 2 giugno 2008, Novi Sad, Galleria di Matica
Srpska, 13 giugno - 21 giugno 2008), 33-41.
(n.a.) (1927) Il Museo Diocesano di Palermo. Palermo, 9-10.
F. Pottino (1952) Il Museo Diocesano di Palermo. Palermo, 11.
Mosaic of the Virgin Haghiosoritissa
6
Palermo, Sicily, 12th Century,
Height: 750mm
Width: 620mm
Lent by: Museo Diocesano di Palermo, Via M. Bonello, 2, 90133 Palermo, Italy
Provenance:
Recorded as in Palermo Cathedral in 1858-1864; recorded as in the Museo Diocesano since
1926. Probably transfered from Cathedral to Cathedral Treasury, which then became the
Museo Diocesano.
Ownership details 1933-1945: Museo Diocesano di Palermo
Publications:
Maria Andaloro (2006) La Vergine Haghiosoritissa dalla Cattedrale di Palermo, in: M.
Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di
Palermo. Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 558-559. With complete bibliography
going back to 1858
Replica of Coronation Robe Roger II
Silk, Como, modern replica,
Height: 1460mm
Width: 3450mm
Lent by: Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota - Via per Cernobbio 19, 22100 Como, Italy
Provenance: Made in 1993 for the Museo Studio del Tessuto (Fondazione Ratti)
Ownership details 1933-1945: Modern replica, created 1993
Publications:
G.E. Candiani (1994) Mantello di Ruggero II, in: m. D’Onofrio (ed.) I Normanni, popolo
d’Europa 1030-1200. Catalogo della mostra, Venice, 427-428.

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