Fresco of the Tomb of the Plunger
The fresco of the Tomb of the Plunger is a ancient Fresque discovered the summer 1968, by the archeologist Mario Napoli, during the Fouille S of small a Nécropole located in Italy, with 1,5 kilometers in the south of Paestum, in a Greek Tombe with case .
It is currently with the national archaeological Museum of Paestum.
It would go back to 480 - 470 before Jesus-Christ.
Its name comes from the scene painted on the flagstone of cover, representing a plunging Athlète in water, and being able to symbolize the jump towards the unknown or death.
The fresco is also known to represent a Banquet bucolic several guests drinking and prélassant themselves - it is more precisely about a symposium . One can also see there a scene Amour euse between two men.
The fresco of the Tomb of the Plunger owes its importance with the fact of being, currently, the single example of parietal painting of figurative subject , dated from the orientalizing time, antiquated and traditional, which reached us in his integrity.
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