On World Health Day, 7 April, the MArRC dedicates to medical, nursing and healthcare personnel, engaged in the Coronavirus emergency, the gold foil diadem, decorated with five flowers applied, among the most beautiful and precious objects of the archaeological collection of the Museum.
The Museum participates in the “Fiori” social campaign coordinated by the MiBACT Central Press Office for the Day, with the hashtags #GiornataMondialelaSalute and #WorldHealthDay.
The diadem is dated to the second half of the fourth century B.C. and comes from a male chamber tomb in S. Maria del Cedro in Marcellina (Cosenza), corresponding to the ancient center of Laos.
The flowers, with a double order of five roundish petals, carried in the center a pistil made of a small button, fixed to the rosette by means of a hanger with divided ends and then beaten on the back side of the foil.
The ribbed decoration is of Italic matrix, while the technique of application of the rosettes is Greek, suggesting that it is a mixed production, Western Italian with Greco-Eastern influences.
Its finding in a male trousseau suggests that it was an ornament worn by the owner for the symposiums, during which the diners drank crowned. Among the other objects found, in fact, there was also a rich symposium service of apule vases and red figure bells. The deceased was a warrior, because he was also endowed with a valuable panoply, that is, with a complete armour consisting of helmet, armor, belt, schinieri, spear and javelin.