The Museum, located inside the Federician Castle of Melfi, displays important archaeological findings discovered in the Vulture-Melfese area. The funerary equipment from the Archaic age includes refined Daunian ceramics with geometric decoration, bronze armors, precious silver, gold, and amber ornaments as well as bronze vessels of both Greek and Etruscan production. The classical section focuses on extraordinary finds from the 4th-3rd century BC, including Magna Graecian red-figure ceramics and monumental polychrome vases with applied figures, of Canosan manufacture, discovered in Lavello (ancient Forentum). The Roman phase is documented by an exceptional 2nd-century AD marble sarcophagus with relief decoration, attributable to workshops from Asia Minor, which features the deceased “sleeping” on the lid and Roman gods and heroes framed in niches on the side panels.
Information about the National Archaeological Museum of Melfi “Massimo Pallottino”
Via Normanni – Federician Castle,
85025 Melfi (Potenza)
0972238726
sba-bas.melfimuseo@beniculturali.it
https://www.archeobasilicata.beniculturali.it
Source: MIBACT
