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March 2024
March 2024

Odysseus - Gods & Heroes Digging Kit

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Educational excavation and conservation Puzzle kit.


Dig, find, mount and display the sherds of a black figured plaque inspired from representations of mythological scenes in Ancient Greek Vases.

Can you guess the figure depicted?
It is Odysseus and his men blinding the cyclops Polyphemus; detail from a funerary Proto-Attic amphora; ca. 660BCE (Archaeological Museum of Eleusis, Attica).

The kit contains fragments of a black figured pinax, other sherds and sea shells buried in a mixture of gypsum, clay and sand. It also contains a safe wooden digging tool, a small toothbrush, and a protective dust mask for excavation; a magnetic plate with self adhesive tape to mount the puzzle, a cardboard mount as well as instructions and information material on the object discovered.

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