US Edition1st Century BCE Medusa Mask Mold Discovered in Ancient Finziade, Sicily
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1st Century BCE Medusa Mask Mold Discovered in Ancient Finziade, Sicily
At the Finziade archaeological site in the Sicilian town of Licata, archaeologists have discovered a mask mold that could represent Medusa from Greek mythology. The site of ancient Finziade lies near the centre of the modern city of Licata in the province of Agrigento on the southern coast of Sicily. A hill system morphologically characterizes the area arranged E-W for about 8 km: the so-called ‘Mountain of Licata’, marked on its eastern side by…
In the town of Licata (the ancient Greek Finziade), in Sicily, archaeologists have discovered a masquerade matrix that, according to the first interpretations, could represent Medusa, the Greek mythological figure known for its petrifying gaze and its serpent hair. This discovery was made in the context of excavations in the so-called [...]
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