The collection of Archaic tongue-frame antefixes depicting the Gorgon mask in the Museo Provinciale Campano in Capua comprises approximately two hundred specimens, only a select few of which are currently displayed in Rooms XXII and XXIII on the second floor of the museum. A significant number of these artifacts, however, have been relocated to various Italian and international museums. This corpus is further expanded by finds unearthed during the 1995 excavations at Fondo Patturelli, as well as comparable examples documented in several centers of Etruria and Latium, alongside more recent discoveries and rediscoveries at Cuma. The ongoing re-examination of this remarkable corpus of material from Capua thus requires expanding beyond the confines of the museum, in order to activate new pathways of knowledge and define the future of research within the Museo Campano.
Le Gorgoni sui tetti: le antefisse di Capua dentro e fuori il Museo Campano
V. Parisi
2026
Abstract
The collection of Archaic tongue-frame antefixes depicting the Gorgon mask in the Museo Provinciale Campano in Capua comprises approximately two hundred specimens, only a select few of which are currently displayed in Rooms XXII and XXIII on the second floor of the museum. A significant number of these artifacts, however, have been relocated to various Italian and international museums. This corpus is further expanded by finds unearthed during the 1995 excavations at Fondo Patturelli, as well as comparable examples documented in several centers of Etruria and Latium, alongside more recent discoveries and rediscoveries at Cuma. The ongoing re-examination of this remarkable corpus of material from Capua thus requires expanding beyond the confines of the museum, in order to activate new pathways of knowledge and define the future of research within the Museo Campano.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
