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Greek Temples of Paestum
$22.00
Three Doric temples on a flat coastal plain south of Salerno, standing since the Greeks called this city Poseidonia. The middle one, the so-called Temple of Neptune, is among the best preserved anywhere, six columns across the front, the limestone warmed to honey where the afternoon reaches it. Built before the Romans renamed the place, before Goethe stopped to write about them. Wild fennel and poppies grow up through the old streets between them. Most coaches stop at Pompeii and never come this far down. The ones who do tend to stay until the light goes.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.