page_title: Pinax
hierarchical_section_title: Pinax
caption_attribution_description: English: House of the Prince of Naples in Pompeii Plate 164 Exedra South Wall Detail
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: In the modern study of the culture of ancient Greece and Magna Graecia, a pinax (πίναξ) (plural pinakes - πίνακες), 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.
caption: Pinax on the south wall of the Exedra in the House of the Prince of Naples in Pompeii
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