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ROSELLE – finding spot unknown (7th c. B.C.) Sandstone Covering slab from a “well type” pit tomb, in the shape of a shield decorated with a double-axe in relief. Production from Vetulonia

ROSELLE – Unknown finding spot Attic black-figure pottery 1) Amphora depicting Hercules who offers the Erymanthian boar to the king Eurystheus, the scene is drawn from the 12 Labors of Hercules (520 B.C.) Etruscan black-figure [...]

ROSELLE – Slopes of the Northern Hill – Group of objects found together Gray bucchero (first half 6th c. B.C.) 1) Jug (oinochoe) with trilobate mouth 2) Amphora Bronze (second half 7th – beginning 6th [...]

Strada del Serpaio – Chamber tomb (first half 6th c. B.C.) Bucchero 1) Calyxes and cups 2) Spindle whorl Etrusco-Corinthian pottery 3) Small plate on a foot Strada del Serpaio – Pit tomb (first half [...]

CAMPO DELLA FONTE – Group of objects found together (end 7th c. B.C.) Bucchero 1) Pyxides with a lid 2) Stamnoid olla (olla) with stamped decoration on the lid 3) Lid with stamped decoration CAMPO [...]

CAMPO DELLA FONTE – Necropolis Tomb 12 (6th c. B.C.) Gray Bucchero 1) Stamnoid pot (olla) 2) Cup-shaped ladles (kantharoi) 3) Carinated bowl Bronze 4) “Sanguisuga” type brooch (fibula) Tomb 18 (first quarter 6th c. [...]

ROSELLE – Unknown finding spot (end 9th - beginning 8th c. B. C.) Impasto pottery 1) Biconical vase 2) Globular olla (pot) decorated with grooves Bronze 3) Fusiform spiral pendants STERTIGNANO – Chance findings (end [...]

4 Some academics tend to see these statues, smaller than true, as Roman copies of an original bronze from 500-480 BC, perhaps the Artemis of the sanctuary of Segesta mentioned in the orations of Cicero [...]

3 The sculptures, gathered for the first time in this exhibition, perhaps from the same workshop in Rome, date back to the second half of the 1st century B.C. They have in common the iconographic [...]

2 The head (in the copies that possess it) is characterized by an archaic smile, lips tightened and raised at the corners, with protruding chin and high and pronounced cheekbones. A bandeau tiara, decorated with [...]