Marzano's Collection (IIIrd room)

In this room there is the Marzano’s Archaeological Collection, purchased by the Provincial Authority in 1989 by the heirs of the Advocate Mr. Gabriele Marzano, already the Director of this Museum from 1954 up to 1980.
This collection includes ceramics, architectural elements and coins, mostly coming from the archaeologial area of Valesio, a messapian town some kms south-east far from Brindisi, where Mr Marzano himself brought to light the finds of a remarkable thermal plant belonging to the roman-imperial age.

1st Showcase

The sample-case there exhibited offers a chronological illustration of trozzelle through the morphological evolution of these from the VIIth to the IIIrd centuries B.C., from the bulging shaped without foot, with handles and no trozze, to the slender ones with large disk-shaped foot, thick border, and four couples of trozzelle to the top of the handles.
The decorative inventory presents geometrical elements: a chess-board, rings, sand-glasses, squares, triangles together with phytomorpic elements: spotted roses, lotus flowers, lanceolates leaves.

2nd and 4th Showcase

Aboundant is the apulian pottery of native production: Kántharoi, kraters, small junks, small dishes, mostly having a votive purpose, dating back to the IVth and the IIIrd centuries B.C.
Still related to the votive clay manufacturing, the two gifts of clay fruit, a nut and a pomegranate.

3rd Showcase

Polychrome clay architectural elements are present in this show case, decorated with vegetable motives and a disk with the symbols of the cult ingraved on it; a series of antefixes decorated with images of Gorgoneion dating back to the Vth and the IVth centuries B.C. and several small clay pyramids dating to the Vth century B.C.

Red figures Apulian vases
vasi5th Showcase

Beside a red figures krater imported from Attica (Vth century B.C.), there is a great number of banquet and households red figures pottery belonging to the apulian style.
To be noticed, among them, six kraters (IVth century B.C.) with figures drawn by the Dyonisian inventory: dancing ephebes and bacchantes, feminine figures of offerers, satyrs, sacrifices’s scenes.

Bell krater in the Gnathia style
cratere6th Showcase

Still red figures apulian vases decorated with more simple characters; several skyphoi with owl and epikyseis with offering feminine figures; a remarkable Gnathia’s style bell krater decorated with a lyre framed by an ivy branch and floral festooned; noteworthy is the research for special colour effects.

Gorga's Collection (IVth room)

The collection includes part of the rich archaeological collection given in 1956 to the F.Ribezzo’s Provincial Museum by the Ministry of Public Education and previously owned by the spanish tenor Juan Gorga.
The collection gathers votive clay manufacturing pieces; antefixes, oscilli (masks), disks, pottery with figures dating to the VIth and the IInd centuries B.C.

Clay statue of Venus
venereTo be noticed in the 6th showcase a kneeled feminine figure (IIIrd century B.C.) between a shell’s valves, intented to represent Venus’ birth.