L’Antiquarium was inaugurated in 1996 and consists of four exhibition rooms, organized according to a chronological and thematic criterion. In the first room, the most significant artifacts from the prehistoric and protostoric sites of the Clanis Valley are exhibited; the educational panels illustrate the geomorphology of the Avellino territory and the distribution of the known archaeological finds in the settlement of ancient Abella. The second room is dedicated to the necropolises of Abella; the exhibition features a selection of the funerary belongings found in the necropolises identified in the localities of S. Nazzaro and S. Paolino. In the same room, it is also possible to see an exceptional find made in the area of the current historic center (via Mulini): an Oscan inscription that commemorates the construction of public buildings by the magistrate Maio Vestirikio (late 2nd century BC). The third room is divided into two sections: in the first, an exceptional archaic burial is displayed, which includes a rich example of local ceramic productions and imported ceramics from the Etruscan and Greek areas. In the second section, materials from two extra-urban sacred areas, identified in the localities of Seminario and Campochiaro, are exhibited instead. The finds document, in the first case, the existence of a cult linked to fertility (statues of kourotrophoi) and healing (anatomical ex-votos), in the second, they denote the cult of Italic deities among which the figure of Hercules stands out.
Information about Antiquarium di Avella
Via Francesco De Sanctis, 16
83021 Avella (Avellino)
0818251044
sar-cam.avella@beniculturali.it
https://www.archeosa.beniculturali.it
Source: MIBACT
