メトロポリタン美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (メトロポリタン美術館Instagram)「In 1974, two farmers plowing their field in western Sardinia unearthed a nearly 3,000-year-old gigantic limestone head. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ Excavations in the plain at the foot of the low hill of Mont’e Prama (“the mountain of palm trees”) revealed a monumental necropolis, or funerary area, that had been in use for several centuries during the early first millennium BCE, and featured individual tombs covered with colossal male statues.⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ The largest of these Giants, a boxer named Manneddu (from mannu in Sardinian, meaning large), is on loan for six months to The Met from the @fondazione.monteprama.⁣ ⁣⁣ Tap the link in bio to learn more about the Giants of Mont’e Prama. Visit the @metgreekandroman galleries to see Manneddu—the first Giant to be exhibited in the United States—on view through December 2023. ⁣⁣ ⁣⁣⁣ 🎨 Artist unknown (Italy, Early Iron Age). Limestone statue of a boxer, known as Manneddu, 900–700 BCE. Limestone.」6月17日 5時53分