Tombstone Door (Castelluccio Culture, Sicily) (Illustration)

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by Gina Pardo
published on 08 February 2018

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Tombstone Door (Castelluccio Culture, Sicily) — Stone door (early bronze Age, c. 2169 - c. 1500 BCE) closing of a grave dug in the rock, decorated in relief with spiral shaped motifs. On it are carved images that could allude to the sexual act and, therefore, to the continuation of life. Castelluccio Culture, Sicily. (Pencil drawing by Gina Pardo).

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Original image by Gina Pardo. Uploaded by Salvatore Piccolo, published on 08 February 2018 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Pardo, G. (2018, February 08). Tombstone Door (Castelluccio Culture, Sicily). Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/8068/

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Pardo, Gina. "Tombstone Door (Castelluccio Culture, Sicily)." Ancient History Encyclopedia. Ancient History Encyclopedia, 08 Feb 2018. Web. 23 Sep 2020.

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