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How to reach VenosaBY TRAINInfo: www.trenitalia.comBY AIRFOGGIA AIRPORT 50 Km from Venosa Info: +390 0881 619021BY CARA14 BOLOGNA-BARI Candela exit heading towards Melfi immediately after the motorwaytoll gate. Continue along the SS 658 and the SS 655, Venosa exitA3 Salerno-Reggio Calabria, exit at Sicignano-Potenza and then continuealong the SS 655 Venosa exitInfo: www.autostrade.itBY BUSwww.ibus.itArchaeological Areaand National MuseumVenosaGPS: N 40° 57’ 40’’ E 15° 48’ 53’’The head of a marble statueportraying a Diadumenos 2nd century AD30 31
The “Massimo Pallottino”Archaeological Museum in MelfiThe“Massimo Pallottino”Archaeological Museum inMelfiVia Castello – Tel. (+39) 0972 238726Opening hours: Monday 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm;Tuesday -Sunday 9:00 am – 8:00 pmClosed weekly:Monday morningsThey feared the unknown and sought toexorcise the darkness beyond the tombthrough recourse to immortality.They were refined, lovers of beauty andrespectful towards the gods. This is theimpression of the people who lived inthe territory north of <strong>Basilicata</strong> betweenthe 7th and 3rd century BC provided bythe abundant possessions in their tombs.These are reconstructed in the halls ofthe Melfi Archaeological Museum, hometo a collection of shining armour, finejewels and objects that indicate a timebelonging to men, women, children andpriests.Melfi enjoyed a strategic position,bordering with the flourishing Dauniaand traversed by rivers that, like themotorways of antiquity, enabled contactwith the Etruscan Campania area andthe Ionian Coast, which had just beencolonised by the Greeks.These favourable geographicalcoordinates convinced the EmperorFrederick II to choose Melfi as the siteof one of his castles and the place fromwhich, in1231, he promulgated the“Melfitan Constitutions”, a body of lawsthat remained in force until the modernera.The tombs reconstructed in the variousrooms of the Museum bring to lifevaliant warriors buried with their lances,their armour (helmets, greaves, fittedbreast-plates, belts and shields) andobjects representing the social level ofthe deceased. These include banquetingsets with bronze bowls for boiling meat,evidence of contact with the Etruscanpopulations in Campania, skewers,Corinthian-made drinking vessels,indicating relations with the people ofGreek stock that had settled from 640 BCalong the Ionian coast (Metapontum),wine craters, ollas (large earthenwarecontainers for holding and conservingfood products) and ladles.The ceramics from Canosa are unique(the tradition of ceramic manufacturein Puglia has very ancient origins), withvessels distinguished by the presence offemale faces of different sizes on theirhandles or extremities, the liturgy ofbanquets and their social value.33
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