THE HELLENISTIC AGE.

In the part concerning the Hellenistic Age (it goes from the IVth to the IIth century B.C.), several funerary complexes are exhibited. Both single burials and big family tombs contain, among other things, uncommon “silver” ceramics and rich metal ornaments in vitreous paste. The equipment of a tomb discovered in 1975 in via Genova is particularly important, it goes back to the last years of the IIth century B.C. This funerary equipment consists of an extraordinary nucleus of golden and precious stone jewels. In detail, the following finds were retrieved:

• A pair of earrings with winged Eros;
• A necklace with clasp formed by antelope protomes;
• A chain with an amphora pendant;
• Three magnificent rings;
• Some silver toiletries and simple terracotta ointment vases. All of them probably were produced out of Italic boundaries.