Eggs

(March 9, 2025) This is a Lucanian fresco from the cemetery of Paestum in southern Italy. This city was originally a Greek colony founded around 600 BCE under the name of Poseidonia. In 400 BCE, the Lucanians seized the city. The Romans took over in 273 BCE and renamed in Paestum.

This is located on one of the two short sides of a painted tomb, here depicting a table with 2 golden bronze hydriai (water jars) on either side of a dark - silver? - oinochoe (wine jug or pitcher). On the floor below, eggs and a pomegranate, symbols of rebirth. 

This is on display at Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, part of the Magna Graecia collection (MANN inv. 9362?)

Photo by Stephen Chappell at https://www.flickr.com/photos/chappspix/54372192087/