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THE NATIONAL CERITE MUSEUM


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The Museum of Cerveteri , inaugurated in 1967 and located inside the Ruspoli Castle is right in the historical centre of the city and conserves part of the discoveries from the excavations at the Ceretane Necropolis and the residential areas. The visit starts on the right side of the entrance and proceeds to the lower floor and then to the upper floor. In the entrance, exhibits of objects from the Villanovan occupation are on display with particular examples from the burial ground of Sorbo.

In the first room, of great importance is a small urn depicting a wedding banquet ( a minute copy of the very famous "sarcophagus" on display at Villa Guilia) and the crater of the painter of the Eptacordo, a well known artist of Caere from the first decades of the 7th century BC.

The room on the upper floor contains a series of sarcophagi from the Hellenic age found in the Tomb of the Tasmie and the Tomb of the Sarcophagi both located on the outside of the walls of the necropolis of Banditaccia in the area of the Common Tombs.

Next to these exhibits, the section presents a series of painted plates from the Temple of Hera and a splendid statue of Caronte originating from the necropolis of Saint Angelo.. In the same room on the far side there are various ex voto mummies and architectonic pottery on display.

The visit to the museum is free. It is open from Tuesday to Sunday from 8.30 am to 7.30 pm.

Closed on Mondays, 1st of January, 1st of May and 25th December.

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