The third room shows material belonging to the roman period; there are local stone’s heads (carparo) dated between the Ist century B.C. and the Ist A.C.
In this room, roman mosaics belonging to the imperial age are also shown.
Carparo head
(roman period)
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Augusto
(augustean period)
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C. Marcello
(augustean period)
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From the 4th room, the exhibition of Taranto necropolis’ finds begins.
Two funerary statues, two maid-servants having a melancholy attitude, welcome us.
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Funerary Statue
(II-I cent.B.C.)
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 In the middle of the room there are an archaic sarchofagus and a funerary bed (kline); then, two rooms’ tombs doors belonging to the hellenisticc age; besides, on the left wall, we can admire gables or architraves’ friezes (metopes) of funerary monuments (naiskos). |
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Naiskos of Metopa
(II-I cent.B.C.)
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