page_title: Pinax
section_title: Other uses
hierarchical_section_title: Pinax / Other uses
caption_attribution_description: English: Pinax with Persephone and Hades Enthroned, 500-450 BC, Greek, Locri Epizephirii, Mannella district, Sanctuary of Persephone, terracotta - Exhibit in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Photography was permitted in the museum without restriction. This artwork is old enough so that it is in the public domain.
context_page_description: In the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax, meaning "board", is a votive tablet of painted wood, or terracotta, marble or bronze relief that served as a votive object deposited in a sanctuary or as a memorial affixed within a burial chamber.
  Such pinakes feature in the classical collections of most comprehensive museums.
  In the Third and Fourth Styles of Roman interior wall paintings, a pinax was a painted framed picture usually in the Main Zone of the wall surface.
context_section_description: To the ancient Greeks pinax seems also to have been a general term for a plate, but this is generally not followed in modern archaeological usage.  In daily life pinax might equally denote a wax-covered writing tablet. In Christian contexts,  painted icons ("images") are pinakes. In the theatre of ancient Greece, they were images probably usually painted on cloth, but also carved either in stone or wood, that were hung behind, and sometimes below, the stage area as scenery, or as permanent decoration.  The term pinacotheca for a picture gallery derives from such usages.
caption: Terracotta pinax of Persephone and Hades from Locri (Museo Nazionale di Reggio di Calabria)
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