Civic Museum - Melara
The room on the ground floor of the Town Hall of Melara hosts the archaeological finds discovered during the reclamation works carried out in the town. The material presented in the thirteen display cases cover a time span stretching from the early Iron Age to the 4th cent. A.D.
The studies carried out in this area starting from the 70’s have led to the discovery of a remarkable amount of ancient artefacts, which have been put together to make up this original collection. Recently the material was moved to the eighteenth century Municipal Palace, which still today hosts the collection.
Municipal Hall
The finds contained in the first display cases refer to the site Mariconda, a Terramare village dating back to the final Bronze - early Iron Age (12th-9th cent. B.C.), which was coeval of the thriving centre of Frattesina and located near a waterway, the Adria river.
The artefacts discovered include numerous work tools: flint cores, arrowheads, bronze blades, a reconstructed sickle, a weeding hoe, querns and handstones, awls, smoothing tools, spindle whorls, reels, loom weights, a decorated bradawl, a carved deer antler and ornamental pierced sea shells. There are also examples of the local grey pottery, probably manufactured without the use of the lathe, which includes numerous bowls of different types (carinate , with crescent-shaped handle, with trapezoidal handle, etc.).
The following display cases contain materials of the Roman period mainly coming from funerary contexts. Particularly important is the display case containing a burial in amphora and one in cist. The former consists of an amphora, which has been broken on purpose at the height of the shoulder containing a black varnish plate, a bowl, a fibula, a glass unguentarium, a coin and an oenochoe, whereas the latter is made up of some tiles arranged in such a way that they could host the burnt bones, a lachrymatory, a sigillata patera, a black varnish plate, an olpe and a vessel. Beside the two burials, there is a cremation grave of the capuchin type of the 4th cent. A.D. Among the artefacts of the Roman period particularly noteworthy are the well of arched bricks reconstructed at the centre of the room and a large amount of glass objects (lachrymatories, glasses and bottles).
Admission: Negli orari di apertura
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