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Mecenate Archaeological Museum

The Museum named Gaius Cilnius Maecenas was founded in 1936 and is located in the medieval monastery of Monte Oliveto di Arezzo, a valuable building that stands on the remains of the Roman amphitheater (mid-2nd century AD) whose structures are still partly visible on the first floor.

Originated from the eclectic public museum of “ Natural History and Antiquities ” founded in 1823 by the Fraternity of the Laity, it has grown over time, both with the acquisition of various private collections and with the contributions of the excavations conducted in the city and in the territory, became a state museum in 1973, the museum is divided into 26 rooms spread over two floors.

The ground floor, ordered topographically , exposes finds that retrace the history of Arezzo from its foundation in the Etruscan age until the late ancient age. On the upper floor are the special sections (paleontology, prehistory, early Middle Ages), the thematic (ceramics, bronzes and precious) and the collections that belonged to famous Aretine citizens: Bacci, Gamurrini, Funghini, Ceccatelli.

Among the most significant finds of the Etruscan section are the jewels of the Poggio del Sole necropolis , an imposing polychrome front decoration with battle scenes from Piazza S. Jacopo (480 BC), a series of heads -portrait and votive busts from Via della Società Operaia (II-I BC), as well as the findings of the magnificent sanctuary of Castelsecco (decorative plates, a stone altar and votive statues of children in swaddling), a pebble inscribed for divination and quinipondium, a large monetary specimen of which only two examples are known in the world.

From the necropolis of the territory come the Attic amphora from Casalta with the rape of Hippodamia, the school of the painter of Meidias (420 – 410 B.C.) and the torso of Marciano, funerary sculpture of the Archaic Etruscan age. The Roman section includes mosaics, bronzes, sculptures, inscriptions, funerary monuments, portraits and grave goods, including the precious one of a young girl found in “Puglia”.

The museum preserves the world’s richest collection of terra sigillata vases , also known in the past as “corallini vases”, produced in Arezzo between the mid-1st century BC. and half of I d.C. they made the city famous in antiquity. In the precious section you can admire the male portrait in chrysography – gold on glass – (second half of the 3rd century AD), which is one of the rare and finest examples of this technique, while in the Sala della Collezione Bacci the magnificent attic crater with Amazzonomachia, masterpiece of the ceramographer Euphronios (510 – 500 BC) is exhibited.

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