La exhibition is set up in the building that incorporates the remains of the Roman cryptoporticus, located near Porta Ascolana, in the southern sector of Norcia.
The rooms housing the collection incorporate the remains of a cryptoporticus, an underground structure designed in the second half of the 1st century BC to ensure a covered passage in the forum area of the city.
The exhibition, besides representing an opportunity to visit the remains of the cryptoporticus, is part of the Norcia museum circuit that includes the Civic and Diocesan Museum “La Castellina,” overlooking the central square of Norcia, and the Museum of Mills and Water Meadows, which together offer a comprehensive summary of archaeological and historical-artistic knowledge about Norcia.
The exhibition displays materials recovered in the Campo Boario area during excavations carried out in 2000. The route documents a village of huts from the 9th-8th century BC and a necropolis from the 6th-3rd century BC, one of many located around the city, characterized by pit graves for the inhumation of high-status individuals, buried with rich furnishings in ceramics, iron, and bronze. A lapidary collection including funerary steles, milestone markers, and honorary bases documents part of the rich epigraphic heritage of Roman Nursia, while two Neo-Attic milestones with Dionysian scenes attest to local practice of pagan cults dedicated to Dionysus-Bacchus. The rooms housing the collection incorporate the remains of a cryptoporticus, an underground structure designed in the second half of the 1st century BC to ensure a covered passage in the forum area. Connected via a staircase to an upper porticoed part, the cryptoporticus was illuminated by a row of loophole windows placed just above the springing of the vaulting.
Information on the permanent archaeological exhibition at the Roman Cryptoporticus of Porta Ascolana
Via Roma, 36
06046 Norcia (Perugia)
0743817209
https://www.artenorcia.net
Source: MIBACT
