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ArchaeologicalMuseum of Bologna

Room XI. Gallic BolognaEtruscan Bologna underwent radical upheaval at the start of the4th century BC with the invasion of the Celts (known in Latinliterary sources as the Gauls): in successive waves, they occupiedlarge stretches of Italy, north of the Apennines and the MarchesRegion. Settled in the Bolognese territory was the Boi tribe. Anumber of its funerary equipments is displayed in the Museum:they are characterized both by the presence of iron weapons ofthe transalpine tradition and Etruscanbanquet tableware.

Room VI. The Greek CollectionThe most representative object of thePalagi Collection is located inthis room: the marble head ofAthena Lemnia. Created in therst Augustan age, it is a copyof a 5th century bronze originalby the Greek sculptor Phidia. Theother marbles on display are for themost part Roman copies of Greekworks. There are also some originalworks, such as the high relief fragmentof an Attic stele (early 4th century BC).The ceramic collection, chiey attic

(end of the 6th

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centuries BC),is extremely rich, together withnumerous examples of Italic wares(end of the 5th-4th centuries BC).

Rooms VII and IX. The Roman CollectionThe section of Roman antiquities includes ceramic and glasstableware, domestic furnishings, small gured bronzes, oil-lampsand objects for daily use, such as keys, bulae, needles, spoons,bells, weighs and scales. Of great importance are the series of earlyChristian ivory objects (diptychs and pyxes) decorated with sacredand profane motifs (5th century AD). The marble sculptures, whichinclude reliefs, statues, portraits of public and private personages,document the activity of the Roman workshops during the ImperialAge. Also noteworthy are the numerous examples of gold and silvercoins (1st century BC - late 4th century AD).

Room VIII. The Etrusco-Italic CollectionIn this section noteworthy are the buccheri (Etruscan earthenware)from Chiusi, the Etruscan urns in terracotta and marble and themirrors worked in relief and carved, including the famous pateracospiana (mid-5th century BC), the name of which is derived fromthat of the collector Ferdinando Cospi, its rst owner.

The Museum takes pride in important collections that are not yeton display. Thanks to a renovation project presently underway,they will soon be available to the public. The collection ofmaterials from the Roman colony of Bononia, as well as anextremely large numismatic collection containing about 100.000pieces of coins, medals and coin-stamps will be included.

< Apulian red- gure hydria,clay, University Collection,formerly Marsili Collection(350-320 BC)

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I - Prehistory

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V-VI - The Greek Collection

VII - Greek and RomanSculptures

VIII - The Etrusco-ItalicCollection

IX - The Roman Collection

X - Etruscan Bologna

XI - Gallic Bologna

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The PlasterCast Collection

The EpigraphicCollection

Temporary ExhibitionHall

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The Egyptian Collection

Archaeological Museum of Bologna Via dellArchiginnasio 2I-40124 Bolognatel. +39 051 2757211fax +39 051 266516e-mail: mca@comune.bologna.it

Opening times:Tuesday-Friday 9am 3pm.The 1st oor closes at 2.30pmSundays and Holidays:10am 6.30pm.Closed: Monday (Holidaysexcepted), 25th December,1st January and 1st May.

For ticket prices and updateson timetables and Museumactivities, please consult thefollowing website:

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The Archaeological Museum is located in the oldOspedale della Morte, an historic building datingfrom the 15th century. Inaugurated in 1881, its collec-tions were created starting with those of the University(Aldrovandi, Cospi, Marsili and Lambertini) and thatof Pelagio Palagi (1861). A conspicuous archaeologicalpatrimony from excavations carried out in Bologna andthe surrounding territory was added to them.

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The Egyptian Collection

The Museum contains one of the mostimportant Egyptian collections in Europe. Theexhibition begins with the famous limestonereliefs of the tomb of General Horemhebfrom Saqqara (reign of Tutankhamon, 1332-1323 BC), who later became the last Pharaohof the XVIII Dynasty. The exhibit is ordered

chronologically. It starts with the OldKingdom and leads up to the Ptolemaic-Roman Period and includes vases, stelae,brightly coloured wooden sarcophagi,various small funerary statues (ushabti ), arich nucleus of small votive bronzes, andother grave furnishings. Special mention

< Limestone relief with scene representing work in the elds, from Saqqara,tomb of Horemheb, XVIII dynasty; reign of Tutankhamon (1332-1323 BC)

should be made of some fully roundsculptures, in particular the statueof an anonymous ofcial fromthe IV dynasty (2640-2520 BC)and the large statue of a well-known dignitary named Uahibra(XXVI dynasty, 664-525 BC)as well as numerous examples ofroyal statuary that reproduce theidealized features of PharaohsNeferhotep I, Thutmosi III,

Amenhotep III or IV and Apries.

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Entrance hall and Courtyard. Epigraphic CollectionDisplayed in both the entrance hall and courtyard is theEpigraphic Collection, which includes mainly Roman burialmonuments and stelae from the city and its neighbours, dating

from the mid-1st century BC to the

mid-2nd

century AD, together witha series of milestones from theVia Aemilia . Among these is the

armoured torso belonging to a statueof Nero (mid-1st century AD) foundin via de Carbonesi and comingfrom the Roman city theatre.

The Plaster Cast Gallery The Plaster Cast Gallery is located

on the ground oor: it contains acollection of plaster copies of famous

Greek and Roman sculptures.

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Room I. Prehistory in the Bologna areaThe visit to the rst oor begins with the prehistoric section,which documents the presence of man in the Bologna territoryfrom the Lower Palaeolithic (800,000 years ago) to the brinkof the Historical Age (Late-Bronze Age, 10th century BC).Organised chronologically, the exposition dedicates ample spaceto materials found in excavations carried out between the end ofthe 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, integrated witha number of objects found more recently.

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Head of Amenhotep III (1390-1353 BC)or Amenhotep VI (1353-1336 BC)

= Marble torso of Nero, Bologna,via de Carbonesi (mid-1 st century AD)

Room II. Prehistoric ComparisonsAlongside the large hall dedicated to the pre-protohistoricperiod, there is a small room containing material from thecollection of the illustrious geologist Giovanni Capellini. Itwas donated to the Museum in 1895 and enriched by otherminor collections.

Room III. The Etruscans in Romagna: VerucchioShown here are the exceptional funerary furnishings of LippiTomb 85, from Verucchio (Rimini), an important Etruscancultural centre of the Villanovan period in Emilia Romagna.

Quite noteworthy are the ttings and wooden furniture (smalltables for offerings, earthenware, a throne and foot-rest) andother organic materials, such as the straw helmet decoratedwith bronze disks (1st half of the 7th century BC).

Rooms XA and X. Etruscan BolognaThe two large galleries at the centre of the oor containmaterials from the Etruscan civilization in Bologna(9th-4th centuries BC),amply documented thanksto the excavations carriedout since the beginningof the second halfof the 19th century.

The numerous funeraryfurnishings displayed enablereconstruction of the historical,social and economic evolution ofthe centre of Felsina, or EtruscanBologna. The most ancient period,known as the Villanovan Phase (9th-8th centuries BC) is documentedby cremation tombs insideterracotta or laminated bronzeossuaries. Splendid examples ofthe subsequent Orientalizingperiod (7th century BC)include the funerary stelae decorated with depictions offantastic animals. At the beginning of the mid-6th century BC,Felsina became a true city, surrounded by its necropolises.Sandstone stelae with bas relief decorations marked thetombs. Exquisitely worked Attic ceramics and bronze vases

were deposited in the burial sites. Among them isthe famous Certosa Situla (rst half

of the 6th century BC), a renedlaminated bronze container withembossed decoration, used as the

cinerary urn of a female tomb.

= Bronze situla, Bologna,

Certosa necropolis, tomb 68( rst half of the 6 th century BC)

< Terracotta askos, Bologna,Benacci necropolis, tomb 525(end of the 8 th century BC)

= Statue of Neferhoptep I, Fayyum (?);XIII dynasty, reign of Neferhoptep I(c. 1759-1640 BC)