(ANSAmed) - NAPLES, 26 GEN - Jewels and paintings from the
House of the Golden Bracelet, silver tableware found years ago
in Moregine, and a unique crater in bronze by Giulio Polibio are
some of the things to be seen in the soon to be reopened
Antiquarium of Pompeii.
There is also the charcoal writing that shifted the date of the
eruption to October, the "witch's treasure" with coloured
amulets found in the House with a Garden, as well as the casts
of two fleeing people, a result of excavations a few months ago
in the Civita Giuliana villa.
A week before the first reopening to the public, Pompeii has
revealed its new Antiquarium, renovated and transformed into a
true museum of the city telling its history, from the Samnite
period to its destruction in 79 AD.
At the same time it will be exhibiting its most valuable
treasures alongside a large portion of the most famous
discoveries of the latest excavations.
The inauguration took place Monday.
"Many of the iconic pieces exhibited in the shows around the
world were not actually available for Pompeii visitors,'' ANSA
was told by Luana Toniolo, archaeological official and head of
the new Antiquarium. "For security reasons there were held in
our storage rooms."
Now, instead, they will be on display alongside a "chat bot",
or digital assistant, to convey the various seasons experienced
by Pompeii before it became the large city that we know through
its crystalization at the time of the eruption.
Pompeii director Massimo Osanna stressed that "Pompeii
finally has a museum, and it is a unique one".
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