Su alcuni bronzetti antropomorfi

Abstract

A peculiar bronze pendant is exposed in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Amendolara (Calabria, Southern Italy).
Unpublished notes by Vincenzo Laviola, a local physician fond of archaeology, report that this object was found at
Agliastroso, a necropolis dated between the Final Bronze Age and the Iron Age. A strict parallel for this pendant can be
established with late bronze Age specimens coming from Lipari and from a Final Bronze Age hoard found at Coste del
Marano (Lazio, Central Italy) and from Mycenae. Specific typological details characterizing these objects call to mind
Late Bronze Age pendants found in Central Italy and an anthropomorphic figurine from Torano (Calabria) and another
one from Paternò (Sicily).