La Spedizione Siciliana

Italian 3008 – Spring 2016 – Professors Barbara Weiden Boyd and Davida Gavioli

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The Mystery of Selinunte

March 25, 2016 By agorman

  
I found this interesting spiral pattern on a fragmented capital in the ruin of the Olympeium at Selinunte. Is it an original feature? If so, what purpose did it serve? Did some Punic soldier leave his mark on the destroyed temple? Is it chance erosion from millennia of exposure? Is it an addition by later artists?

Do we find similar features/patterns in other ruins, temple or otherwise?

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