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Sicily: culture and conquest, 21 April – 14 August 2016, The British Museum List of objects proposed f or protection under Part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enf orcement Act 2007 (protection of cultural objects on loan)

Sicily: Culture and Conquest

Exhibition Dates: 21 April – 14 August 2016 Venue: Gallery 35, The British Museum, London WC1B 3DG UK List of objects proposed for protection under Part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007 (protection of cultural objects on loan).

Terracotta altar with three woman and a lioness mauling a bull Sop.BL 30 Terracotta, Sicily, 500BC Height: 1140mm Length: 750mm Depth: 350mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Gela, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1, 93012 Gela Provenance: Excavated and deposited in Museo Archeologico Regionale, Gela in 1999. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated

Publications:

R. Panvini, Gela arcaica. Are Divinità Tiranni, Roma 2000.

R. Panvini and L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C (Palermo 2009), 419-420.

Antefix in the form of a Gorgoneion 35688 Terracotta, Sicily, about 500BC Height: 385mm Length: 380mm Depth: 880mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Gela, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1, 93012 Gela Provenance: Acquired by Museo Regionale Archeologico, Gela, after official excavation in 1973 Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated

Publications:

E. De Miro and G. Fiorentini, Kokalos 1976–7, 430–47, fig.36.

Michael J. Bennett Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily, Cleveland , 261,no.62.

R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, 166-7, no.VI/35.

Terracotta head of horse 8585 Terracotta , Sicily, 490-480BC Height: 250mm Length: 110mm Length: 425mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Gela, Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1, 93012 Gela Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Gela, soon after excavation in 1954. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated

Publications:

P. Orlandini,’ Nuovi acroteri a forma di cavallo e cavaliere dalla acropoli di Gela’ P.E.Arias, Scritti in onore di Guido Libertini.

P. Griffo, Sulle orme della civiltà gelese, Firenze 1958, 117-128, plate 3, figs.1-3.

R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C., 381,no.TA/4.


Terracotta bust 309 Terracotta, Sicily, about 480BC Height: 342mm Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy Provenance: Discovered between 1915 and 1926 as part of a votive deposit found by the archaeologist Gabrici Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas soon after discovery. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas Publications:

E. Gabrici, “Il santuario della Malophoros a Selinunte,” MonAnt 32, 1927,278-9, plate 65.1.

E. Wiederkehr Schuler, Les protomés féminines du sanctuaire de la Malophoros à Sélinonte, Naples 2004, 202-3, plates 58-9.

R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, Palermo 2009, 413,no.TA/63.

Marble relief of a charioteer 1553

Marble, Sicily, about 440 – 430 BC Height: 280mm Width: 400mm Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy Provenance: Originally in Baron Don Antonio Astuto's collection housed at Noto, Sicily. He acquired objects from Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 –1818) the Italian antiquarian and art historian. The collection of Baron Astuto was purchased in 1861 by the Royal Goverment of the Bourbons. In 1862 the collection was transferred to the Museo dell’Università a Palermo and then in the same year in the Real Museo , the current Museo “Antonino Salinas". Acquired in1862 Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas Publications: Referred to in E.Reisch - Griechische Weihgeschenke, Wien 1890, 50, note 5. K.Morgan, ‘Imaginary Kings: Visions of Monarchy in Sicilian Literature from Pindar to Theokritos.’ In Sicily: Art and Invention between Greece and Rome, 100, fig.55.

Limestone metope from Selinunte 3919 Limestone, Sicily, about 550BC Height: 840mm Width: 685mm Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas after excavation in 1968. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

V. Tusa, ‘Due nuove metope arcaiche da Selinunt’e, in Arch. Class., XXI, 1969, 153.

V.Tusa, La scultura di pietra di Selinunte,Palermo, 1983,110-11, plate 28-9.

C.Marconi, Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World: The Metopes of Selinus103-109 and 228-9


Fragment of a Metope from Temple C NI 3899 Limstone, Sicily, about 540 – 500 BC Height: 460mm Width 470mm Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy Provenance: Acquired in 1823 shortly after excavation by English explorers, S.Angell and T.Evans Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas Publications: S.Angell and T.Evans Sculptured metopes discovered amongst the ruins of the temples of the ancient city of Selinus in Sicily : by William Harris and Samuel Angell, in the year 1823. London 1826, 53, plate 9.4.

Marble head from the metopes of Temple E at Selinunte NI3884 Marble, Sicily, about 460 BC Height: 260mm Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas shortly after discovery in 1831-2 Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas Publications:

Serradifalco, Domenico Lo Faso Pietrasanta, duca di, Le antichità della Sicilia II, Palermo 1834, drawing of head on plate 35.

Lo stile severo in Sicilia: Dall' apogeo della tirannide alla prima democrazia, Palermo 1990, 201, no.32

C.Marconi, Selinunte. Le metope dell'Heraion, 159-161, no.18.

Bilingual Inscription for Inscriptions workshop NI 3574 Marble, likely Palermo, Sicily, 100 BC – AD 100 Height: 155mm Width 245mm Depth:35mm Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy Provenance: The inscription is mentioned as part of the collection of the Museo Salnitriano in Palermo, an antiquarian collection, in 1762. It is likely that the inscription transferred with the rest of that collection to what is now the Museo Archeologico Antonio Salinas in Palermo in 1861-3, becoming integrated in the national collection. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas Publications:

Castelli, Gabriele Lancillotto, Principe di Torremuzza (1762) Le antiche iscrizioni di Palermo. Palermo, p. 19

O. Tribulato (2011) The Stone-Cutter’s Bilingual Inscription from Palermo (IG XIV 297 = CIL X 7296): a New Interpretation, Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 177.2, 131-140

On transfer of the collection of the Museo Salnitriano to the Museo Archeologico A Salinas, see official museum website: http://www.regione.sicilia.it/bbccaa/salinas/pagine/col_salnit.htm

http://www.regione.sicilia.it/bbccaa/salinas/pagine/col_salnit.htm


Gold Necklace from Campobello di Mazara hoard NI30650 Gold, Campobello di Mazara, Sicily, 7th-9th C AD Length: 312mm Lent by: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas, Via Bara All'Olivella, 24, 90133 Palermo, Italy Provenance: Bought by Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale from owner/finder in 1878 Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Palermo Museo Archeologico Regionale, Antonio Salinas Publications:

A. Salinas (1886) Le collane bizantine del Museo di Palermo rinvenute a Campobello di Mazara, Palermo.

M. A. Lima (1997) Oreficerie del Museo Archeologico ‘Antonio Salinas’ di Palermo, II, in QuadMuseoSalinas 3, p 81-102.

I. Baldini Lippolis (1999) L’oreficeria nell’impero di Costantinopoli tra IV e VII secolo, Bari, p 41.

M. A. Lima (1999) Oreficerie del Museo Archeologico ‘Antonio Salinas’ di Palermo, II, in QuadMuseoSalinas 5, p 59-71.

L. Gandolfo (2014) L’instancabile raccoglitore, in F. Spatafora and L. Gandolfo (eds) Del Museo di Palermo e del suo avvenire. Il Salinas ricorda Salinas, 1914-2014, Palermo, p 29.

Ceramic dinos with triskeles AG 4328 Ceramic, Sicily, 650 – 600 BC Height: 177mm Depth: 325mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Contrada San Nicola, 12, Agrigento,

92100, Italy

Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Agrigento, soon after discovery during official excavation, prior to 1962. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

E. De Miro - La fondazione di Agrigento e l'ellenizzazione fra il Salso ed il Platani,in Kokalos , VIII 1962, plate 48, figs.1-3.

Sizilien. Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi: Katalog zur Ausstellung der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2008), 257, cat.no.70.

R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, Palermo 2009, 124-5, no.VII/131.


Marble statue of a warrior Ag 217 Marble, Sicily, about 480 BC Height: 861mm Lent by: Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Contrada San Nicola, 12,

Agrigento, 92100, Italy

Provenance: The torso, thigh and head were discovered separately, between 1940- 1968. Each piece acquired soon after discovery by Museo Archeologico Regionale Agrigento. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Agrigento after 1940.

Publications:

Before all sections were joined: Torso published in P.Griffo, Up-to-date guide for the visitor to the monuments of Agrigento, Agrigento 1956, fig.26-27. Head published in Fuchs, W. ‘Archäologische Forschungen und Funde in Sizilien 1955 bis 1964’, in AA 1964, 719-20. After restoration: Lo stile severo in Sicilia: Dall' apogeo della tirannide alla prima democrazia, Palermo 1990, 162-3, cat.no.2. M.Barbanera, Il guerriero di Agrigento , Rome 1995.

Relief with Tree of Life, 9th century, marble 20584 Marble, Sicily, 800-900 AD Height: 770mm Width: 1630mm Depth: 70 – 150mm Lent by: Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Contrada San Nicola, 12,

Agrigento, 92100, Italy

Provenance: Discovered during renovation works of a 19

th-century villa, now the Villa

Athena, north of the Temple of Concord, next to the area of the early Christian and Byzantine necropolis. It was registered in Museo Archeologico Regionale Di Agrigento in 1981, but already published in 1980, so is likely to have been found there in the late 1970s. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

Ernesto De Miro, "Agrigento paleocristiana e bizantina", Felix Ravenna, 1980, pp. 131-171.

R.M. Bonacasa Carra, Un rilievo bizantino del Museo Archeologico Regionale di Agrigento, Quaderni dell’Istituto di archeologia della Facoltà di Lettere dell’Università di Messina 4, 1989, pp. 101-109.

E. Vitale (2008) Relief mit Lebensbaum, in: (n.a.) Sizilien. Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi. Muenchen, 290-291 – for which it was part of the Sizilien exhibition in Bonn.


Arab terracotta bowl with peacock Terracotta, Palermo, Sicily, 900-1000 AD Diameter: 250mm Depth: 100mm Lent by: Galleria Regionale Della Sicilia (Palazzo Abatellis), Via Alloro, 4, Palermo, Italy Provenance: Discovered, likely in the 1970s, in excavations at the Church of San Giovanni degli Eremiti, Palermo and transferred to the Galleria Regionale della Sicilia di Palazzo Abatellis. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

F. GABRIELI , U. SCERRATO (a cura di), Gli Arabi in Italia, 1985 (2° ediz.), fig. 183.

I. Siede (2010) Teller mit gelber Glasur, in: A. Wieczorek, B. Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter (Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte. Ausstellungskatalog über die Staufer-Ausstellung im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 86, nr. III.D.4.

Painted coffer of Cefalu Cathedral 1189 Wood, Cathedral of Cefalù, Sicily, c. 1150 Height: 330mm Width: 500mm Lent by: Galleria Regionale Della Sicilia (Palazzo Abatellis), Via Alloro, 4, Palermo, Italy Provenance: This panel is likely to be the one that fell down from the ceiling of the Cathedral of Cefalù in 1903 and was subsequently transferred to the Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo, as Sicily’s museum for medieval antiquities. If not, the panel that is being lent is described as being in the Museo Nazionale di Palermo in 1941. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo Publications: V. Lanza (1941) Saggio sui soffitti siciliani dal sec. XII al XVII, Attti dell’Accademia di Scienze, Letter ed Arti di Palermo 4.1, 178-219.M. Andaloro (1995) Figura di donna entro un cerchio e motive ornamentale entro un mandorla, in: C.A. Di Stefano and M. Andaloro (eds) Federico e la Sicilia: dalla Terra alla Corona. Catalogo della Mostra al Real Albergo dei Poveri in Palermo, Siracusa 486-488. C. Braun (2010) Bemalte Tafel: Weibliche Figur in Kreis und Ornament in Mandorla, in: A. Wieczorek, B. Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter (Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte. Ausstellungskatalog über die Staufer-Ausstellung im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 166-7.

Inlaid Arabic Inscriptions from Capella Palatina 5104 Marble, Cappella Palatina, Palermo, Sicily, 1130AD Height: 327mm Width: 1845mm Depth: 48mm Lent by: Galleria Regionale Della Sicilia (Palazzo Abatellis), Via Alloro, 4, Palermo, Italy

Provenance:Given to the Regio Museo di Palermo (renamed Museo Nazionale di Palermo in 1866) by king Vittorio Emanuele in 1863.

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo Publications:

Lagumina, B.,“Iscrizione araba del Re Ruggiero scoperta alla Cappella Palatina in Palermo”, Atti dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rendiconti della classe di Scienze Morali, 1893, 231-234;

J. Johns (2006) Tre Lastre Frammentarie con Iscrizioni Arabe in Lode di Ruggero II dal Palazzo di Palermo, in: M. Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 498-501. With complete bibliography going back to 1875.


Wooden inlay chest cover or door from Palazzo dei Normanni 5223 Wood, Palermo, Sicily, 12th century AD Height: 1340mm Width: 735mm Lent by: Galleria Regionale Della Sicilia (Palazzo Abatellis), Via Alloro, 4, Palermo, Italy

Provenance: Given to the Museum by king Vittorio Emanuele, potentially in 1863, when also the inscriptions from the Cappella Palatina were donated to the Museum (see that form).

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

Publications:

S. Piazza (2006) Pannello di Soffittatura dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo, in: M. Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 543-544. With complete bibliography going back to 1875.

Telamon from Monte Iato S 11 Limestone, Sicily, about 300 BC Height: 1990mm Lent by: Antiquarium S Cipirello (PA), Via Roma, 320, 90040 San Cipirello PA, Italy Provenance: Discovered through official excavation in c.1970 by Swiss and Sicilian archaeologists and acquired by Antiquarium San Cipirello (PA) soon after. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated

Publications:

Ed. H. Bloesch and H. P. Isler Studia Ietina. 1. Die Stützfiguren des griechischen Theaters. Gestempelte Ziegel. Rezepte vom Monte Iato, 13-48.

The Western Greeks, exhibition catalogue, Venice,1996, 748, cat.no.376 I.

Bronze rostra from Levanzo Egadi 4 Bronze, Italy, 243-241 BC Height: 700mm Wight: 500mm Lent by: Soprintendenza per i Beni culturali e ambientali del Mare

Palazzetto Mirto - Via Lungarini, 9, Lungomare Cristoforo Colombo, 4521 (Istituto Roosevelt)

Palermo 90100, Italy

Provenance: Discovered as a result of official excavations in 2011

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

S. Tusa and J. Royal (2012) “The landscape of the naval battle at the Egadi Islands (241 BC)", Journal of Roman Archaeology 25: 7-48.

http://rpmnautical.org/egadi4ram.html

http://rpmnautical.org/egadi4ram.html


Oil lamp G.E. 19594 Palermo, 900-1000 AD

Lent by: SoprIntendeza di Palermo, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA.

Via Calvi, 13, 90139 – Palermo

Provenance: Excavated at Palazzo Sambuca, Palermo, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo in 2004.

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications: F. Spatafora, Da Panormos a Balarm, 2005, p. 67

Oil lamp G.E. 19591 Palermo, 900-1000 AD Lent by: SoprIntendeza di Palermo, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA.


Provenance: Excavated between 2003-2005 at Palazzo Chiaramonti-Steri, Palermo (registered as part of excavation layer US 404.19).

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications: Unpublished



Provenance: Excavated at Palazzo Sambuca, Palermo, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo in 2004.




Excavated at Palazzo Sambuca, Palermo, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo in 2004.



Bowl with bull decoration G.E. 19286 Terracotta, Palermo, Sicily, 900-1000 AD Depth: 100mm Diameter: 300mm

Lent by: SoprIntendeza di Palermo, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA.


Provenance: Excavated in excavations at the church and monastery of the Magione, Palermo,

in 1994, by the Soprintendenza di Palermo.

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications: F. D'Angelo, I. Garofano, Scavi al Convento della SS. Trinità (Magione) di Palermo, in C.A. DI STEFANO, A. CADEI (a cura di), Federico e la Sicilia dalla terra alla corona, 1995, pp. 335-341, catalogue nr. P44.

Marble inlaid tombstone with eulogy in four languages 19304 Marble, Church of St. Michael the Archangel, Palermo, Sicily , 1149 Width: 410mm Length: 320mm Depth: 45mm max Lent by: SoprIntendeza di Palermo, Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA.


Provenance: Acquired before 1890.The inscription was still recorded in the Chiesa di S.

Michele Arcangelo (which is now part of the Biblioteca Comunale) in 1813, but by 1890 was

published as being part of the collection of the Museo Nazionale di Palermo, the museum

where all objects were housed until the ‘ancient collections’ split from the ‘medieval

collections’.

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unknown, likely the Museo Nazionale di Palermo or the

Galleri Regionale di Palazzo Abatellis.

Publications:

S. Morso (1813) Spiegazione di due lapidi esistenti nella Chiesa di S. Michele Arcangelo. Palermo.

Lagumina, B. (1890) Nota sulla iscrizione quadrilingue esistente nel Museo Nazionale di Palermo, Archivio Storico Siciliano 15, 108-110.

J. Johns (2006) Lapidi Sepolcrali in Memoria di Anna e Drogo, Genitori di Grisanto, in: M. Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 519-523. (With complete bibliography going back to 1813).


Limestone stele from a tomb doorway 8922 Limestone, Sicily, 2000 BC Height: 970mm Width: 580mm (top); 690mm (bottom) Depth: 80-90mm; though thicker where relief in centre Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired after official excavations by Paolo Orsi, who did a sketch of the tomb slab in his notebooks on 24 May 1891. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Publications:

P.Orsi, ‘La necropolis sicula di Castelluccio’, in Bollettino di paleontologia Italiana 19, 1892, 1-34 and 67-84.

Luigi Bernabo Brea Sicily before the Greeks, London 1957, 109,fig.33.

R.Leighton, Sicily Before History, London 1999, 127,fig.60.

A.Crispino,’ Paolo Orsi innovatore.Lo scavo di Castelluccio di Noto e la nuovametodologia

negli studi preistorici in Sicilia’, XLVI Riunione Scienti ca -150 anni di preistoria e

protostoria in Italia, 349-354. Drawing by Orsi of tomb door on p351.

Pedestalled basin from Thapsos 14731 Sicily, about 1500 – 1400 BC Height: 860-870mm Depth: 570mm (inc. handle) Diamester: 510mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after official excavation in c.1895 Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Publications:

Orsi P. 1895. “Thapsos,” Monumenti Antichi dei Lincei 6: 89–150, shown page 119, fig.28.

Published in exhibition catalaogue, Sizilien. Von Odysseus bis Garibaldi: Katalog zur Ausstellung der Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (2008), entry no.10.

Gold ring with suckling calf 45905 Gold, Sicily, about 600 BC Height: 160mm Width: 350mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Found on land near tombs at Sant’Angelo Muxaro in 1931, and acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi shortly afterwards. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Publications:

P.Orsi, ‘La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro (Agrigento) e cosa essa ci dice di nuovo nella questione sicula’, Atti Regia Academia Scienze Lettere ant.Palermo, XVII, fasc.III, 7,fig.3.

B.Pace, ‘Ori della reggia sicana di Camico’, in Arch. Ephem., 1953-4, 1, 273-288 G. Rizza and D.Palermo, La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro: scavi Orsi-Zanotti Bianco 1931-1932, Catania 2004,


Gold ring with wolf 46517 Gold, Sicily, about 600 BC Height: 180mm Width: 360mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after discovery in 1931 at an official excavation. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Publications:

P.Orsi, ‘La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro (Agrigento) e cosa essa ci dice di nuovo nella questione sicula’, Atti Regia Academia Scienze Lettere ant.Palermo, XVII, fasc.III,13,fig.8.

B.Pace, ‘Ori della reggia sicana di Camico’, in Arch. Ephem., 1953-4, 1, 273-288

G. Rizza and D.Palermo, La necropoli di Sant'Angelo Muxaro: scavi Orsi-Zanotti Bianco 1931-1932

Shard of Polychrome pottery from a dinos 84813 Sicily, about 650 BC Height: 200mm Width: 195mm Depth: 17mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after discovery in 1964 as part if official excavations. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

F. Villard ‘, La céramique archaïque de Mégara Hyblaea’, Kokalos 10-11, 1964-5,603-608, plate 80.

R. Panvini and L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C (Palermo 2009), 118.

M.Denoyelle and M.Iozzo, La ceramique grecque d'italie meridionale et de sicile, Paris 2009, 64,fig.68.

Altar with Odysseus escaping from Polyphemus 84819 Terracotta, Sicily, about 550 BC Height: 170mm Width: 430mm Depth: 180mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi prior to 1973. Likely to have been acquired soon after discovery. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

Bernabo Brea, Megara Hyblaea, in G. Voza, "Archeologia della Sicilia Sud-Orientale, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1973, 169, no.480, plate 52.

Vallet, G., Villard, F. and Auberson, P, Megara Hyblaea, 3, Rome 1983, p168, fig.79.

R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a, Palermo 2009, 266, no.VI/232.


Terracotta altar with lion attacking a bull 18670 Terracotta altar, Sicily, about 520 – 500 BC Height: 215mm Width: 515mm Depth: 200mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi after official excavation in 1898. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi Publications:

G. Libertini, Centuripe, Catania 1926, 129-132, plate 50.

G.Pugliese Carratelli, The Western Greeks (exhibition catalogue) Venice 1996, 684, cat.no.97.

R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C, 263,no.VI/226

Vessel from Megara Hyblaea in Syrcause 96918 Terracotta, Sicily, about 675 BC Height: 570mm Diameter: 430mm (incl.handles) Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi following official excavation, prior to 1973, when it was first published. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Unexcavated Publications:

Bernabo Brea, Megara Hyblaea, in G. Voza, "Bilancio degli Archeologia della Sicilia Sud-Orientale, exhibition catalogue, Naples 1973, 166-7, plate 53.

R. Panvini and L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C (Palermo 2009), 118.

M.Denoyelle and M.Iozzo, La ceramique grecque d'italie meridionale et de sicile, Paris 2009, 64,plate.68.

Terracotta roof decoration 23831 and 23708 Terracotta, origin unknown, 530 BC Height: 900mm Width: 1240mm Depth: 512mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after official excavation in 1911 Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi Publications:

P.Orsi, Di una anonima citta siculo-greca a Monte S. Mauro presso Caltagirone." MonAnt 20, 1911, 782, fig.43, plate 5.

C. Wikander, Sicilian Architectural Terracottas: a reappraisal ,Stockholm 1986, 39.no.35, fig.10.

C.Ciurcina, ‘Rapporti tra le terrecotte architettoniche della Sicilia Orientale e quelle dell'Italia centrale’, in Deliciae Fictilès. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Central Italie Architectural Terracottas at the Swedish Institute in Rome, 1990 (Acta Instituti Romani Regni Sueciae, L), Stockholm 1993, 33,fig.12.


Limestone model of temple 20087 Limestone, Sicily, 500 – 450 BC Height: 580mm Width: 627mm Depth: 685mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi soon after excavation, before 1900. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi

Publications:

P. Orsi, ‘Gela. Frammenti archeologici’, in NSc, 1900, 380, fig.3.

De Mire - Fr. Villard, Sicile grecque, Paris 1955, 287,plate72

R.Panvini et L.Sole, La Sicilia in età arcaica: dalle apoikiai al 480 a.C.387,no.TA/14.

Marble helmeted head in relief from Camarina, recut from earlier sculpture 24882 Marble, Sicily, about 440 – 430 BC Height: 296mm Width: 265mm Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi shortly after find date in 1905 Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi

Publications:

P.Orsi, Miscellanea di archeologia, storia e filologia dedicata al Prof. Antonino Salinas nel LX anniversario del suo insegnamento accademico, 1906, 25, plate1.

Lo stile severo in Sicilia: Dall' apogeo della tirannide alla prima democrazia, Palermo 1990, 170, no.7.

Pyxis from Centuripe 49051 Terracotta, Sicily, 300 BC – 200 BC Height: 660mm Width: 510mm (including handles) Length: 380mm (max diam of lid) Lent by: Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Viale Teocrito, 66, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy Provenance: Found by a farmer on his land near the ancient necropolis prior to 1929. Acquired by Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi on 17

th November 1929.

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Museo Archeologico Regionale, Paolo Orsi Publications: Unpublished


Letter of Adelasia, wife of Roger I, bilingual; earliest document on paper in Europe Doc.9 Paper, Messina, Sicily, 1109 Height: 380mm Width: 369mm Lent by: Archivio di Stato di Palermo, Via Vittorio Emanuele 31, 90133 Palermo, Italy

Provenance: The document is a decree by Adelaide del Vasto, issued in Messina on 6 March 1109, instructing local officers to protect the abbey of San Filippo di Fragalà, near Enna. It is more than just probable that the decree remained in the tabularium of the abbey until their archives were moved to the Archivio di Stato in 1857. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Archivio di Stato di Palermo Publications:

La Mantia, Giuseppe (1908) Il Primo documento in carta (contessa Adelaide, 1109) esistente in Sicilia e rimasto sinora sconosciuto. Palermo.

Displayed in Reiss-Engelhorrn Museum (2010-2011) in Staufer und Italien exhibition. See V. Tuerck (2010) Mandat in griechischer und arabischer Sprache in: A. Wieczorek, B. Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter (Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte. Ausstellungskatalog über die Staufer-Ausstellung im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 165-6, nr. IV.C.1.9

Copper enamelled plaque showing Roger II crowned by Saint Nicholas Copper and enamell, Bari, Italy, 1139-1154 Height: 244mm Width: 234 mm Lent by: Museo Nicolaiano, Largo Abate Elia, 13 , 70122 Bari, Italy Provenance: Been at the Basilica of San Nicola in Bari since between 1139 and 1154. Transferred to the Basilica Treasury in early 20

th century (was still in place in 1899, see

Bertaux, Monuments Piot, 1899). Transferred to Museo Nicolaiano, around 2010 (was previously Museo Diocesano, opened in 1966). Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Bari Cathedral Treasury Publications:

S. Di Sciascio (2006) Placca con S. Nicola che Incorona Ruggero II, in: M. Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 216-217.See there for complete bibliography going back to 1884.


Cameo Bust of Costanza D'Altaville inv. 47/1 Agate, Sicily / Southern Italy, 1200-1250 Height: 45mm(without base) Lent by: Santarelli Foundation, Via di Porta Lavernale, 26, 00153 – Rome Provenance: Acquired from the private collection of academic Antonio Giuliano by the Santarelli Foundation in 26 February 2002. Cameos lent by Santarelli Foundation to the Musei Capitolini in Rome from 2010 for study and research. Displayed in Musei Capitolini from 2012 to present. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Whereabouts unknown. Object has been published extensively. Reference to relevant databases indicates no evidence of wrongful taking. Publications:

About the long-term loan to the Musei Capitolini, see: http://en.museicapitolini.org/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/ palazzo_clementino_caffarelli/collezione_santarelli

Cameo bust has been published in:

A.M. Mellili (1995) Busto di Costanza, in: M.S. Calo Mariani and R. Cassano (eds) Federico II. Immagine e Potere. Exhibition Catalogue. Venice, 480.

A. Giuliano (2003)”…la luce de la gran Costanza”, in: A. Giuliano (ed.) Studi Normanni e Federiciani. Rome, 117-122.

A. Gallottini, ed. (2012) La glittica Santarelli ai Musei Capitolini. Intagli, cammei e sigilli. Exhibition Catalogue. Rome.

Cameo with Eagle Inv. Belli 20 Sardonyx, Sicily / Southern Italy,1200-1250 Depth: 8.5mm Diameter: 28mm Lent by: Santarelli Foundation, Via di Porta Lavernale, 26, 00153 – Rome Provenance: Acquired from the private collection of Giuliana Belli by the Santarelli Foundation 6 October 2003. Cameos lent by Santarelli Foundation to Musei Capitolini in Rome from 2010 for study and research. Displayed in Musei Capitolini from 2012 to present. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Whereabouts unknown. Object has been published extensively. Reference to relevant databases indicates no evidence of wrongful taking. Publications:

Info was obtained directly from the Santarelli Foundation

About the long-term loan to the Capitoline Museums, see: http://en.museicapitolini.org/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/ palazzo_clementino_caffarelli/collezione_santarelli

Cameo has been published in:

A. Gallottini, ed. (2012) La glittica Santarelli ai Musei Capitolini. Intagli, cammei e sigilli. Exhibition Catalogue. Rome, 227.

http://en.museicapitolini.org/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/palazzo_clementino_caffarelli/collezione_santarelli





Cameo with Leda and Swan 47/28g Sardonyx, Sicily / Southern Italy,1200-1250 Height: 25.5mm Width: 20.6mm Depth: 4.8mm Lent by: Santarelli Foundation, Via di Porta Lavernale, 26, 00153 – Rome Provenance: Acquired from the private collection of academic Antonio Giuliano by the Santarelli Foundation in 26 February 2002. Cameos lent by Santarelli Foundation to Musei Capitolini in Rome from 2010 for study and research. Displayed in Musei Capitolini from 2012 to present. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Whereabouts unknown. Object has been published extensively. Reference to relevant databases indicates no evidence of wrongful taking.

Publications:

Info was obtained directly from the Santarelli Foundation

About the long-term loan to the Capitoline Museums, see:

http://en.museicapitolini.org/collezioni/percorsi_per_sale/ palazzo_clementino_caffarelli/collezione_santarelli

Cameo bust has been published in:

A. Gallottini, ed. (2012) La glittica Santarelli ai Musei Capitolini. Intagli, cammei e sigilli. Exhibition Catalogue. Rome.

Marble Bust of Frederick II Marble, Lanuvio, Italy, 1225-1250 Height: 490mm Lent by: Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Abteilung Rom , Via Valadier 37 , 00193 Rome

Provenance: The bust was probably found in the area of Lanuvio, and was displayed in the Casino Bonelli since the 18th century, a Baroque villa. It first belonged to the Bonelli family, afterwards the poet Marianna Dionigi owned the villa and its sculpture. In 1944, the antiquities were hidden within the villa. Acquired from the Bonelli Collection in 1953 for the Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut in Rome.

Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Casino Bonelli Publications:

G. Kaschnitz-Weinberg (1953/54) Bildnisse Friedrichs II. von Hohenstaufen. Teil I: Der Kolossalkopf aus Lanuvium, mit Tafel 1-13. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts Roemische Abteilung 60/61, 1-21.

Exhibition Catalogue: Die Staufer und Italien. Drei Innovationsregionen im mittelalterlichen Europa (2010) Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, p. 59-60.




Gold Bracelet, Pantalica Hoard 52.76.1 Gold, Mount Pantalica, Sicily, Ca. AD 650 Height: 31mm Diameter: 178mm Lent by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, USA Provenance: Found at Pantalica, Sicily, 1903, on the site of the anaktoron; Guiseppe Serges, Sortino, Sicily; J. Pierpont Morgan, Paris and New York; Estate of J. Pierpont Morgan(sold 1944); Parke-Bernet Galleries(Morgan Estate, March 22-25, 1944, lot 63); [ Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York (1944?–sold 1948?)]; Alastair Bradley Martin, New York (1948?–until 1952). Given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Alastair Bradley Martin in1952. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: J. Pierpont Morgan, Parke- Bernet Galleries, Brummer Gallery Publications:

P. Orsi (1910) Byzantina Siciliae. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 19, p 63-90 and 462ff.

P. Orsi (1942) Sicilia Bizantina. Rome.

A. M. Fallico (1975) Sul tesoro bizantino di Pantalica. Sileno: rivista de studi classici e cristiani 1, p 311-30.

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/468419?=&imgno=0&tabname=object-information

Gilded bronze falcon 47.101.60 Gilded Bronze, Sicily / Southern Italy, 1200-1220 Height: 279mm Width: 165mm Length 79mm Lent by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, USA Provenance: Found in Italy, 1925; Dr. Kurt Cassirer, Rome and Berlin (until 1926) ; Paul Sachs (from 1926) ; Arthur Sachs, Cambridge, Mass. (sold 1946) ; [ Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York (1946–sold 1947) ]; Bought by Metropolitan Museum of Art from Brummer Gallery (Paris-New York) in 1947. Ownership between 1933 – 1945: Arthur Sachs, Cambridge, Mass. (sold 1946) Publications:

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/471295

Reliquary pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily 63.160 Gold, England, 1174 - 1177 Height: 50mm Width: 31mm Depth: 7mm Lent by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, USA Provenance: Bought by Metropolitan Museum of Art from Piero Tozzi Galleries Inc., New York in 196; J Pierpont Morgan Collections; formerly collection of E. Germean. Ownership details 1933-1945: J. Pierpont Morgan collections; collection E. Germean. Publications: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection online/search/468600?=&imgno=0&tabname=object-information

T.P.F. Hoving (1965) A Newly Discovered Reliquary of St Thomas Becket, Gesta 4 (Spring): 28-30.

Published and exhibited in Exhibition I Normanni, Populo d’Europa, in Rome, 1994. (n.a.) Ciondolo-reliquario, in: M. D’Onofrio (ed.) I Normanni, popolo d’Europa 1030-1200. Catalogo della mostra, Venice, 518.

Published and exhibited in Treasures of Heaven, BM, London, see B. Drake Boehm (2010) Reliquary Pendant with Queen Margaret of Sicily and Bishop Reginald of Bath, in: M. Bagnoli, H. A. Klein, C. Griffith Mann, J. Robinson (eds) Treasures of Heaven: saints, relics and devotion in medieval Europe. Exhibition Catalogue, BMP, 186-7, nr. 98.




http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection%20online/search/468600?=&imgno=0&tabname=object-information

http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection%20online/search/468600?=&imgno=0&tabname=object-information


Cameo of Hercules and the Lion Inv. 38.150.23 Sardonyx cameo with modern gold frame, Sicily / southern Italy, 1220-1240 Height: 42mm Width: 36mm Length: 8mm Lent by: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028, United States Provenance: Gift of the Milton Weil Collection of 152 cameos and intaglios to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by his widow Ethel Weil Worgelt in 1938. Ownership details 1933-1945: The Milton Weil Collection until 1938; then Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Publications:


E. Kris (1932) Catalogue of Postclassical Cameos in the Milton Weil Collection, Vienna: Nr. 8 (with fig. 3).

R. Kahsnitz (2010) Cameo: Herkules erwuergt den nemaeischen Loewen, in: A. Wieczorek, B. Schneidmüller, S. Weinfurter (Eds) Staufer und Italien, II, Objekte. Ausstellungskatalog über die Staufer-Ausstellung im Reiss-Engelhorn-Museum. Stuttgart, 86, nr. III.D.4, with bibliography.

P. Remington (1940) The Milton Weil Collection of Cameos and Intaglios, Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 35, 4, p. 76-80

Marble Inlaid part of Norman Throne 239 Marble, Palermo Cathedral, Palermo, Sicily, 12th Century Length 1320mm (base) Height: 430mm (max) Depth 50mm Lent by: Museo Diocesano di Palermo, Via M. Bonello, 2, 90133 Palermo, Italy

Provenance: Part of the collection of architectural fragments that were conserved in the store rooms of the Cathedral and were then transferred to the Museo Diocesano in 1926-7 by order of Cardinal Alessandro Lualdi, when the Museum was created. Ownership details 1933-1945: Museo Diocesano di Palermo Publications:

For the history of the Museum and the transfer of pieces from the Cathedral: P. Palazzotto and M.C. Di Natale (2008) Il Museo Diocesano di Palermo:), in B. Kulic and G. Randazzo (eds) Sentire l'Arte. Un'esperienza interculturale nella didattica museale, catalogo della mostra (Palermo, Palazzo Arcivescovile 23 maggio - 2 giugno 2008, Novi Sad, Galleria di Matica Srpska, 13 giugno - 21 giugno 2008), 33-41.

(n.a.) (1927) Il Museo Diocesano di Palermo. Palermo, 9-10.

F. Pottino (1952) Il Museo Diocesano di Palermo. Palermo, 11.



Mosaic of the Virgin Haghiosoritissa 6 Palermo, Sicily, 12th Century, Height: 750mm Width: 620mm Lent by: Museo Diocesano di Palermo, Via M. Bonello, 2, 90133 Palermo, Italy

Provenance: Recorded as in Palermo Cathedral in 1858-1864; recorded as in the Museo Diocesano since 1926. Probably transfered from Cathedral to Cathedral Treasury, which then became the Museo Diocesano. Ownership details 1933-1945: Museo Diocesano di Palermo Publications: Maria Andaloro (2006) La Vergine Haghiosoritissa dalla Cattedrale di Palermo, in: M. Andaloro (ed.) Nobiles Officinae. Perle, filigrane e trame di seta dal Palazzo Reale di Palermo. Volume I, Catalogo della mostra. Catania, 558-559. With complete bibliography going back to 1858

Replica of Coronation Robe Roger II Silk, Como, modern replica, Height: 1460mm Width: 3450mm Lent by: Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Villa Sucota - Via per Cernobbio 19, 22100 Como, Italy Provenance: Made in 1993 for the Museo Studio del Tessuto (Fondazione Ratti) Ownership details 1933-1945: Modern replica, created 1993 Publications: G.E. Candiani (1994) Mantello di Ruggero II, in: m. D’Onofrio (ed.) I Normanni, popolo d’Europa 1030-1200. Catalogo della mostra, Venice, 427-428.

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