Historical Collections
Civic Collection (IInd Room)
This room, devoted to the exhibition of finds belonging to the ancient Civic and De Leo’s Collections, remarkably shows the ceramics mostly recovered from civic occasional finds, having no archaeological documents.
Mostly, it is households’ furnishings and banquet pottery dating back to the VIIth and the IIIrd centuries B.C., belonging quite exclusively to funerary grave goods, that’s to the whole of objects put together with the dead. |
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Trozzelle: messapian typical vases
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 1st Showcase
A selection of small trozzelle, is arranged according to a chronological criterium which allows to follow, though approximately, the stylistic and morphological evolution of the last part of the VIIth century up to the IIIrd century B.C. |
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 2nd Showcase
On the upper shelf there’s an interesting protocorinthian miniature lékythoi sample-case, decorated with running panthers; noteworthy the lékythos representing fighting oplites equipped with round shields.
On the middle shelf, three valuable attic vases show their stylistic quality: a black figures skyphos and a lékythos and a red figures small columns’ krater.
On the lower shelf there also are, together with the other finds, two red figures attic vases, a kylix and an oinochóe, belonging to the same chronological period. |
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Red figures Apulian vases
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 3rd Showcase
This showcase differs for its red figures apulian vases, dating back to the Vth and the IVth centuries B.C. |
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 On the lower shelf, there are remarkable feminine personal ornaments’s pieces, such as ivory hair-pin needles (IIIrd century B.C.), whom one ending with birds, and a clay tintinnabulum (IIIrd century B.C.), pig-shaped with a small putto on its shoulder, probably a toy. |
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