Metaponto

Metaponto was a rich and flourishing outpost of Magna Grecia, strategically between the mouths of the Bradano and the Basento rivers. It was founded in the 7th century BCE and it is the town in which Pythagoras was born.
It also doesn't exist anymore except as a groundplan.
So instead I visited the museum which had many interesting relics of life in that era.
I liked the drawings of girls' hairstyles many of which can still be seen today. Checkout the dreadlocks!
Hard to photograph exhibits behind glass but the 5th C jewelry was exquisite.
I appreciated the way a mannequin was dressed in a recreation of 7th C style, wearing amulets of spiral bronze copied from those on display from ancient tombs.
And the jesters on the vase!Baca selengkapnya