2. 1. Pedestalled basin from Thapsos
Sicily, c BC
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi, 14731

3. 2. Gold bowl with six bulls from Sant'Angelo Muxaro, Sicily
600 BC
British Museum GR 1772,

4. 3. Limestone Metope from a temple at Selinunte
Sicily, BC
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas, 3919

5. 4. Decorated hunting horn
Probably Sicily, about 1150–1250
British Museum BEP

6. 5. Map of Sicily
From يKitāb Gharāʾib al-funūn wa-mulaḥ al-ʿuyūn (known as the Book of Curiosities)
The manuscript is a copy, probably made in Egypt in the late 12th or early 13th century, of an anonymous work compiled in the first half of the 11th century in Egypt.
Bodleian Library, Oxford MS Arab C. 90 fols. 32b-33a

7. 6. Silver coin
Sicily, 42BC-40BC
British Museum 2002,
(reverse) Scylla, wielding rudder with both hands; around, inscription. Border of dots.
(obverse) Pharos of Messana, surmounted by statue of Neptune, helmeted, holding trident in right hand and rudder in left hand and placing left foot on prow; before, ship left, with aquila in prow and sceptre tied with fillet on stern; around, inscription. Border of dots.

8. 7. A double page map of Sicily from Al-Idrisi’s Treatise
Manuscript on paper AD
Bodelian Library, Oxford MS Pococke 375, fols. 187v-188r

9. 8. Marble head of the Roman empress Livia as the goddess Ceres
Sicily, AD 30-50
British Museum, 2000,0818.1
Cameo of the Roman empress Livia as the goddess Ceres
Rome, AD 40-50
British Museum, 1772,

10. 9. Bronze coin showing the Roman emperor Hadrian
Rome AD
(obverse) Laureate bust of Hadrian, right, draped.
(reverse) Hadrian, standing right, facing left, holding a roll in his left hand and extending his right hand to raise up kneeling figure of Sicilia, a draped woman before him. Sicilia wears a triskelis on her head and holds corn-ears in her left hand.
British Museum 1872,

11. 10. Marble tombstone of an elite woman of the Norman Court, in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Arabic
Sicily, AD
Soprintenden za Di Palemermo

12. 11. Plaque – St Paul disputing with the Greeks and Jews
England, AD
Victoria and Albert Museum,
This is part of a group of seven surviving plaques telling the story of St Peter and St Paul. The group originally decorated a larger object, possibly an altarpiece or reliquary. Close links to the English manuscript style identify the group as rare surviving English enamels. The choice of scenes is unusual. This episode appears in Byzantine fresco cycles in Sicily, but was available to English enamellers through contemporary manuscripts.

13. 12. Gilded bronze falcon
Southern Italy, AD
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
This majestic falcon has been associated with the Hohenstaufen emperors, whose rule extended over much of modern Germany and Italy. As symbols of their authority, they carried staffs surmounted by eagles, but the heavy bronze of this example may indicate that it decorated a throne or other piece of furniture. The falcon, which appears to be a specific type called a gerfalcon, suggests a link to Emperor Frederick II, who wrote the standard medieval treatise on the art of falconry, an aristocratic sport that he avidly pursued

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