VIA Sacra TEL. 0922 34233 MEANS OF CONVEYANCE Buses: 1 - 2 - 3 VISITING HOURS Monday - Saturday 9,00 am - 1,00 pm FREE ADMISSION |
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1) Luoghi di culto |
3) Ipogei |
Walking along the avenue which brings
to temples, when you get to the temple of Concorde, turn left
and you can see an old house, Casa Pace, now an Antiquarium.
The Antiquarium has four rooms, in two floors, where there are
didactic panels.
First and second floor are dedicated to religious places. In fact
we can find didactic panels about hipogea and explanation about
Gela, Licata, Palma di Montechiaro, Canicattì, Naro and
Favara, including a planimetry about the ancient town Akragas.
In the first room we can see fragments of marble transenna and
fragments of capitals coming from the urban basilica area. Very
beautiful is also a mould of marble pluteus with decorated relief:
in its center there is a date-palm full of fruits symbolizing
the life-tree. Among the others there are African oil-lamps and
a marble little head from iv century A.D.
In the second room there is a rectangular case sarcophagus, decorated
only on the front, produced probably in Carthago in v century
A.D.
Third and fourth room show didactic panels about Byzantine necropolises
with photos, drawings and planimetry and some achrome little jugs
coming from various hipogea.
The Antiquarium, very interesting, is to be considered inseparable
from Valley of Temples, as it explains to visitors, through its
words and pictures, the "jewels" of ancient civilization.