CATTOLICA ERACLEA

ANTIQUARIUM "Eraclea Minoa"

LOCALITY Eraclea Minoa TEL. 0922846005 VISITING HOURS: Mon to Sat: 9,00 am to one hour earlier the sunset TICKET £ 4.000

The Antiquarium is situated inside one of the most important jewel of the antiquity, the Archaeological Park in Eraclea Minoa. For the most part what the Antiquarium exposes come from the excavations which were done between 1951 and 1964 and they brought to light a beautiful theater that looks like Athens and Siracusa's.
At this purpose one can furnish himself through the photographic panels which are on the walls of the Museum, they furnish dates about the archaeological zone. In the panels you can read about the duration of the excavation, in which way they were made and what was found about the necropolis, the theater and its habitat, with stratigraphic considerations.
Among 200 very beautiful pieces which are exposed inside 6 show-cases and inside 2 glass show-cases, the little Ciborium, from the Lentini' s group, stands out for its beauty (330-325 B.C.). The Ciborium is entire, it has black bottom and shows two figures, one is masculine and one is female. The Prehistoric Age pieces are also very interesting. One can admire many ceramics and many tools. Then, inside two glass show-cases one can find local and Rhodian pieces and wonderful incisions on ceramics, besides one can observe some Prehistoric fragments. As far as the graves the sector is very wide. Among the others we must cite the burning sepolture which presents also its equipment and the Kausis one.
A particular attention deserves the Antefix from Archaistic style, six "Alabastron" from 325-300 B.C. and the Attic ceramics.
So, there are very precious and attractive piece that make Eraclea Minoa' s Antiquarium a place where you can find traces of the past of the whole humanity.