The Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia (Rome)

Many exhibits that come from the area of archaeological interest of Santa Marinella area are conserved in the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia at Rome.

The museum collects exhibits of the flourishing civilisation between Iron Age and roman age in Lazio, in particular in he north-west area of the region, comprehends between the Tiber and the Tuscany (Etruscan and Falisca civilisations).

The material is exhibited in the criteria topographic and includes objects discovered in the area of di Vulci, Bisenzio, Veio, Cerveteri, Pyrgi. Also, in the Antiquarium found place objects of the old Kircherian Museum, of the Castellani and Pesciotti, collection that is the rooms dedicated to Palestrina and to Umbria.

 Sarcophagus of the Bridal Couple Among the exhibits the most famous of the museum can be seen, other than the famous old foils foils of Pyrgi, the furbishing of the warriors tomb (second half of the VI century B.C.) that come from Vulci, the Apollo statue statue (of the VI Cent. B.C.) that comes from the sanctuary of Portonaccio in Veio, the Sarcophagus of the Bridal Couple (about 530 B.C.) that comes from Cerveteri, a chariot in wood with bronze coverings found in the tomb of Castro (about 530 B.C.), the refurbishing of the Barberini and Bernardini of Palestrina (dates about half way of the VII cent. B.C.).

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