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The Pompeo Aria Etruscan National Museum in Marzabotto

The National Etruscan Museum "Pompeo Aria" in Marzabotto preserves the finds found in the annexed archaeological area of Kainua, one of the largest and best preserved Etruscan cities of colonial style. The discovery, towards the middle of the 19th century, of an Etruscan urban settlement founded towards the end of the 6th century. BC led to the formation of an important archaeological collection ceded to the State in the 1930s by the Aria family together with the area in which the ancient city extended. The path, divided by areas of discovery, presents Attic vases, bronzes, tomb and balsam markers from the necropolis, various materials from the inhabited area, the acropolis and the fontile sanctuary, architectural terracotta from the acropolis and dwelling houses, and recent finds, including a head of a Greek kouros, found in the vicinity of what, about ten years later, would later be excavated and identified as the Temple of Tinia. In the fourth room there are two funeral objects from Sasso Marconi.

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Via Porrettana Sud, 13
40043 Marzabotto

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