![]() Terracotas manufactyured in Siceliot worshops in the fifth and 4th century B.C. Findings from the Ciane sanctuary, Apollo Temenites temple, and the sanctuaries of Artemis, Scala Greca and Belvedere, the temple of Olympian Zeus are included. The temple findings of Apollo and the Athenaion are included. Architectural terracotas from urban and extra urban sanctuaries of Syracuse are included. A vast collection of Corinthian, Ionic, Rhodian, Attic and Etruscan imported pottery are shown. Exhibitions include furnishings from the Syracusan necropolis (cemetery). Artifacts are from Naxos, Mylai, Zanite, Katane, Leontini, Megara Hyblaea and Syracuse. Section B is dedicated to the Greek Colonies and Syracuse. The Middle and late geometric Greek pottery included in those tombs documents the Greek contact with the Eastern Sicilian coast before the height of colonization. Section A concludes with a display of the tomb contents from artificial grotto burials found in the Valle of the Marcelino, near Villasmundo. This indicates trade relations with other Mediterranean centers such as Cyprus and Malta. Pottery from Mycenae, Peloponnese was present in the grave goods. The Thapsos culture of Syracuse shows the influence of the Mycenaean world during the Bronze Age. Section A contains the artifacts documenting prehistoric and protohistoric periods from XV-XIII century B.C. Eighteen thousand archaeological finds are displayed from the city of Syracuse and eastern regions of Sicily. The building is nine thousand square meters of exhibition space on two floors. It is dedicated to Paolo Orsi, an archaeologist and expert in Hellenic and pre-Hellenic civilizations. It was built in the park of the Villa Landolina. The “Paolo Orsi” Regional Archaeological Museum of Syracuse, Sicily is one of the foremost institutions in Europe. It continued to mesmerize me during my return visit in the 2008 Arba Sicula tour. “Modern Sicily is a shadow of the greatness it had under the Greeks.” This fact written by persons who were not Greek totally astonished me during the 2005 Arba Sicula (Sicilian dawn) Tour. “The glory Sicily had with the Greek colonies of two thousand five hundred years ago was the high point of Sicilian history,” said the museum display in the “Paolo Orsi” Museum in Syracuse, Sicily. ![]()
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