#TerracottaTuesday🏺
Pomegranates are a big recurring theme in C4-C2 BC Messapian chambered tombs in frescos + terracotta: here mixed w a few apples.
Symbolic of fertility + descent of Persephone to underworld.
In Nat Archaeo Museum Egnazia: exceptional site in Puglia, Bronze Age to Medieval period.
Pomegranates are a big recurring theme in C4-C2 BC Messapian chambered tombs in frescos + terracotta: here mixed w a few apples.
Symbolic of fertility + descent of Persephone to underworld.
In Nat Archaeo Museum Egnazia: exceptional site in Puglia, Bronze Age to Medieval period.
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