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The Archaeological Civic Museum of
Pithecusae was opened on October 1999 and it is located in Villa
Arbusto which was built in the 18th century.
The museum is composed of eight rooms, where over three thousand
of findings are exposed. These findings are some of those that
the famous scholar Giorgio Buchner brought to light. Thanks to
these researches Pithecusae proved to be the most ancient Greek
colony in the Southern Italy. |
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These findings witness the island
history: from the Prehistory until the Roman Age. There are many
findings from Saint Montano Necropolis. There are important
funeral objects, in particular pottery which witness the
morphologic development and the evolution of the geometric
decorations.
These objects witness business relations which Pithecusae
inhabitans had with the Near East, Carthagine, Greece, Spain,
Southern Etruria, Calabria, Sardinia. There are many ancient
Egyptian scarabaeuses, semi-precious stone amulets with
engravings, silver finery such as fibulas, pendants, rings and
tiaras.
The famous Pithecusian pottery come from Saint Montano
Necropolis. There are a crater with a shipwreck scene, Nestor’s
Goblet. This finding has an inscription with a retrograde
writing and it is was reconstructed by Buchner. |
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In the
room n.1
there are Prehistoryc, Neolithic, Bronze
Age, Iron Age findings. Amog them the obsidian blades from
Palmarola (Pontino Archipelago) which date from the Neolithic
(showcase n.1); bowls fragments from Cilento (Ischia), which
date from the Neolithic (showcase n.2); Mycenaean pottery
fragments from Castiglione (Casamicciola), which date from the
Bronze Age (showcase n.3); a big cruet fragment with engravings
from Castiglione, |
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which dates from the Bronze Age
(showcase n.4); an engraved bowl and a handle, from Mount Vico
at Lacco Ameno, which date from the Bronze Age (showcase n.5); a
clay idol from Castiglione, which dates from the Iron Age
(showcase n.6); a biconical from Castiglione which dates from
the Iron Age (showcase n.7); a cup with zigzag engraving, from
Castiglione, which dates from the Iron Age (showcase n.8).
In the
rooms n. 2-3-4
there
are findings which witness the Greek colony at Pithecusae (the
second half of VIIIth – VIIth century BC). |
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Among these findings: "Lyre
player” seals from Saint Montano Valley Necropolis (showcase
n.10); objects found in the tomb n.325 from Saint Montano Valley
Necropolis (showcase n.11); an aryballos with a woman head from
the Northern Syria (showcase n.12); Kotyle fragments from Eubea
(showcase n.13); the little daunia jug with geometric
decorations from Puglia (showcase n. 14); small appliques of
bronze in shape of torello and goose; a small bronze handle with
a male head, a bronze and lead weight from the quarter of
Mazzola at Lacco Ameno (showcase n.15); an “oinochoe” with an
ancient Proto-Corinthian decoration from Saint Montano Valley
Necropolis (showcase n.16); local crater fragments which date
from Late |
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Geometric from Vico Mount
(showcase n.17); a local crater fragment with a Geometric
decoration from Mazzola quarter (showcase n.18); a kotyle,
imported from Rodi, notorious as “Nestor’s Goblet" from Saint
Montano Valley Necropolis (showcase n.20); the objects of the
tomb n.208 of Late Geometric from Saint |
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Montano Valley Necropolis
(showcase n.22); an ointment shaped like owl from the Eastern
Greece (showcase n.29); the objects of the tomb n.276 of the
Ancient Corinthium period from Saint Montano Valley Necropolis
(showcase n.30); a group of terracotta mules and a cart from the
quarter of Pastola at Lacco Ameno (showcase n.32); terracotta
statues of crying from the quarter of Pastola at Lacco Ameno
(showcase n.33).
In the
rooms n.5-6
there are finds which |
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witness Pithecusae life from the 6th to the 4th century BC, that
is the period of the Greek colony. Among
the findings:
an Attic crater with red figures
from Saint Montano Necropolis
(showcase n.34); an Attic crater
with small colomns and red figures
from Saint Montano
Necropolis (showcase n.35); a lateral sima with a
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decoration and a dripstone shaped like a ram’s head from Vico
Mount (showcase n.39); a semicircular antefix from Vico Mount
Vico (showcase n.40);
an antefissa with Gorgone’s head
from Vico Mount Vico (showcase n.41).
In the
room
n.7
there are findings from the Hellenistic Age (the end of the 4th century BC - 82 BC). Among these findings: a
head of feminine terracotta statue from Mount Vico (showcase
n.44); a black guttus disk with a male head from Mount Vico
(showcase n.49).
In the
room
n.8
there are findings from the Roman Age, a period in which there
were volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides.
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