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Visit to Museum - Epigraphical Section - - - |
The Epigraphical section, accessible from Room X of the Prehistoric Section, consists of: an open space, the Garden, where there are located some lithic sarcophagi from the excavations of the Greek necropolis in contrada Diana, dating between IV and III century B.C., and numerous funerary stelai in lavic rock, dating between III and I century B.C. (Fig.1); a Pavilion with over 300 pieces of cippi and inscribed funerary stelai (Fig.2). The exhibition, inside the Pavilion, contains collections of: “little pillar shaped cippi”, dating to VI-V century B.C.; “paralleliped block”, cippi or plinti dating to V-IV century B.C., the stelai slabs dating to the ellenistic Age and Roman-Republican Age, with the deceased’s name and at times, a formula of farewell. Few but significant are the funerary inscriptions of the Christian Age (IV-V century A.D.) engraved on marble slabs. (Fig.3).
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