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Tomb of the Diver

c. 470 BCE · 5th century BCE

The Tomb of the Diver is a Greek stone cist grave of about 470 BCE found in 1968 near Paestum in southern Italy. Its five painted slabs show a symposium on the walls and, on the lid, a young man diving into water, a rare surviving example of Greek painting from the Classical period. It is displayed in the Paestum museum.

Tomb of the Diver
Image: Carole Raddato · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Tomb of the Diver. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/tomb-of-the-diver
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