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Jewels of the Tomb of Canosa are Greek or Apulian?

Hi, Voism.

Excuse my poor English. I am obliged to write in English with extensive help from Google Translate.

You copied five files uploaded to "Category:Jewellery in the Museo archeologico nazionale (Taranto)" to "Category:Ancient Greek jewellery in the Museo archeologico nazionale (Taranto)".

File:Orecchini in oro, III-II sec. a.C. Tomba degli Ori di Canosa. -FG.jpg, File:Foglia di quercia in oro, III-II sec. a.C. Tomba degli Ori di Canosa. -FG.jpg, File:Collana in oro, III-II sec. a.C. Tomba degli Ori di Canosa. -FG 01.jpg, File:Scettro, lamina tubolare in oro e due figure di Nikai con rotolo aperto tra le mani -FG1.jpg, File:Scettro, lamina tubolare in oro e due figure di Nikai con rotolo aperto tra le mani -FG2.jpg.

But are you sure that these jewels were of Greek production or production of Greek colonists? They were found in Canosa. Taranto was a Greek colony, Canosa was not. In the 3rd century BC Canosa was inhabited by an Apulian population, the so-called Dauni.

In the museum, Canosa jewels are exhibited not in the exhibition section "The Greek town", but in the section "Taranto and the Apulian world". I do not know if those jewels were Greek and imported to Canosa or produced by Apulian artisans. In the latter case they should be moved to "Ancient Apulian Jewellery in the Museo...".

In any case, however, now the files are both in the category "Jewellery in the Museo..." and in his sub-category "Ancient Greek Jewellery in the Museo...". This created over-categorization.

So, if you are sure that the jewels founded in Canosa are of Greek production, I will delete the files from "Jewellery in the Museum...", to eliminate over-categorization. Otherwise, just leave them in "Jewellery in the Museum...", so we don't categorize files into categories we aren't sure they belong to.

Thank you for your attention. Best regards.

One last request. For two months I have been completely restructuring the categories of the Archaeological Museum of Taranto, which were very poorly made and poor in files. There are still many categories to add and edit and there will be some errors to correct. As I work, I'm uploading hundreds of new images. Before making changes, please give me a few weeks to finish the job, or please let's discuss it.

Fabrizio Garrisi (talk) 22:10, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Hello Fabrizio. I had assumed those pieces were of similar background as the tiara and glass bowls from the same tomb which are more clearly labelled as Hellenistic. This was my rationale for adding them to the said category but your explanation is convincing. Without further information, these objects cannot be assigned to specifically to Greek origins.

I will remove that category and wait until you finish uploading the rest. And you take beautiful photographs by the way. Thank for sharing them. Voism (talk) 02:12, 5 June 2023 (UTC)

Hi Voism. You were right. The golds founded in the tomb of Canosa are to be attributed to goldsmiths of Taranto. I had not read an explanatory caption in the museum concerning the Tomba degli Ori di Canosa."The gold diadem is a very fine Hellenistic Tarentinte goldsmith, as well as the other gold and precious metal objects." In the next few days I will put things back in place, that is, how you had arranged them. I'm taking some time to do it, because I'm also rearranging all the files, old and new, in the museum, according to five search criteria (by exhibition section, by object type, by century, by material and by place of discovery). I think I still have a month of work ahead. Thanks and regards.

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