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Free Thinking Sicily, The London Library, John Hardyng's Chronicle Sicily: culture and conquest

British Museum 21 April –14 Aug 2016

  • Bust of Frederick II - Italy, 1220–50 AD
  • Enamel peacock decoration - Lid of a casket with peacock decoration. Probably Sicily, c.1250–1300
  • Sicily Palermo Bust Small - Limestone head from a temple. Selinous, Sicily, c. 540–510 BC.
  • Gold Libation bowl - Sant’ Angelo Muxaro, c.600 BC
  • Falcon - Sicily or southern Italy, 1200–1220 AD
  • 14th Century copy of a map of Sicily - from Al-Idrisi’s Treatise, Unknown, c.1300–1500AD
  • Gorgon Antefix - Terracotta roof ornament with head of a gorgon. Gela, Sicily, c.500 BC
  • Quadrilingual tombstone - Palermo, Sicily, 1149 AD
  • 12th century mosaic - Kept at Museo Diocesano di Palermo, originally from Palermo Cathedral, c.1130-1180 AD
  • Bronze Rostrum and Bronze Rostrum detail close up - from Roman warship, from the seabed near Levanzo, Sicily. c.240 BC
  • Marble statue of a warrior - Akragas, Sicily, c.470 BC
  • Ceramic Dinos with Triskelion - Palma di Montechiaro, Sicily, c.650–600 BC
  • Terracotta altar with three women and a panther mauling a bull - Gela, Sicily. C.500 BC
  • Funerary Robe - Tomb of Henry VI, Palermo, Sicily, 1197 AD

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