(ANSAmed) - POMPEI (NAPLES), JULY 31 - An exhibition that
runs from Tuesday until January 31 will seek to showcase the
ancient Stabia in an important archaeological context.
The show, 'In Search of Stabia', will be open to visitors of
the Pompeii Antiquarium.
The ribbon cutting by director general of the Pompeii
archaeological park of Pompeii, Massimo Osanna, was accompanied
by the announcement of an imminent concession for usage of the
Reggia di Quisisana to the superintendent's office to set up a
museum for the Stabiae and a research center on the area that,
Osanna said, ''is considered to be of great interest''.
''This show brings to light a place that was for too long
forgotten. That of the Stabian antiquarium,'' Osanna said,
''which was a glorious place in the 1970s for the extraordinary
materials that it contained. It was later closed due to problems
with the safety of the building.''
After the ''Pompeii emergency'', Osanna said that the time
has come for a new phase that will focus on ''lesser
archaeological sites'', although Stabia is not considered among
these ''lesser'' ones.
The exhibition 'In Search of Stabia' ''is divided into two
areas. One shows the funds of the necropolises of Madonna delle
Grazie and the other those of the sanctuaries in privately held
locations.
The material is from the pre-Roman era, Osanna said, noting
that in that period Campania was ''a world of wide open to the
world and intercultural contacts'', with the inhabitants ''open
to Etruscan communities and Greek cities - a world made up of
mobility, migration, contacts and culture''. (ANSAmed).
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