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Visit to Museum - Classical Section - - - |
The Classical Section spans three different levels in one of the 20th-century buildings that formed part of the fascist confinement camps, with an extension to the eastern section completed in the 1980s. The ground floor (Rooms: XVI – XX, XXVII) is dedicated to finds coming from excavations carried out in the 1950s and 1960s at Milazzo; a display of sarcophagi and of epigraphs and of urns that introduce the grave goods of the Greek necropolis; as well as Marine Archeology. The Middle Floor (Rooms: XXI – XXV) is dedicated to the great wealth of material documentation coming from the excavation of the vast necropolis of Lipari, that developed from IV century B.C. to the 252/251 (destruction of the Greek city by the Romans).
The Top Floor (Room: XXVI) is dedicated to the history of Lipari from the Roman Age to beyond the Medieval Age.
The section dedicates, further, some exhibition spaces to numismatics, with Greek coins in bronze (Middle Floor, Room: XXIII) of the IV century B.C. (Fig.1); coins coming from storerooms from the Hellenistic Age (Fig.2) and coins from the Roman Age (Top Floor, Room: XXVI). Further, other exhibition spaces are dedicated to jewellery objects, coming from tombs of the V century B.C. and the IV century B.C. (Middle Floor, Room: XXIII); of the IV century B.C. and of the first half of the III century B.C. (Middle Floor, Room: XXIV); of I century B.C. (Top Floor, Room: XXVI). It mainly contains, rings, ear-rings, necklaces, pendants, but also funeral jewellry in delicate thin gold plate, among which are the crowns, of which we can admire 4 splendid examples. (Fig.3)
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