The National Archaeological Museum of Ferrara is housed in Palazzo Costabili, in

Ferrara Ferrara (; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, capital of the province of Ferrara. it had 132,009 inhabitants. It is situated northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main ...

, Italy. It holds various excavated artifacts from the Etruscan city of

Spina Spina was an Etruscan port city, established by the end of the 6th century BCE, on the Adriatic at the ancient mouth of the Po. Discovery The site of Spina was lost until modern times, when drainage schemes in the delta of the Po River in 19 ...

, which flourished between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC.Cozzolino and Desantis, pp 1-5 The ancient city of Spina, close to modern Comacchio was abandoned in the 2nd century BC, but was discovered by chance in 1922 and was excavated.Michael Grant "The Rise of the Greeks" Scribner 1978 ISBN 9780684185361 pp. 172–173 The exhibition is organized into two parts. The ground floor holds items related to the city of Spina and the daily activities there. A special section is dedicated to religious life of the city, manifested by

epigraphic Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...

evidence. The ground floor also holds two

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boats (commonly referred to as pirogues) recovered in 1948 in the Isola Valley. The boats date back to the late Roman period (III-IV century BC). Beniculturali
/ref> On the upper floor, items found in the city necropolis are exhibited along with a chronological criteria. These include

krater A krater or crater (, ; , ) was a large two-handled type of vase in Pottery of ancient Greece, Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water. Form and function At a Greek symposium, kraters were placed in ...

amphora An amphora (; ; English ) is a type of container with a pointed bottom and characteristic shape and size which fit tightly (and therefore safely) against each other in storage rooms and packages, tied together with rope and delivered by land ...

e etc. produced by Athenian artists of the 5th and 4th centuries BC. The paintings represent mythological scenes and everyday life, and indicate the spread of Greek art in the Etruscan sphere. Other ceramics, mainly from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, come from

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and Sicily. In addition, jewels in gold, silver, amber and semiprecious stones, made by ancient the artisans of the Po and Central Italian Etruria are displayed.

Some excavated items

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Krater A krater or crater (, ; , ) was a large two-handled type of vase in Pottery of ancient Greece, Ancient Greek pottery and metalwork, mostly used for the mixing of wine with water. Form and function At a Greek symposium, kraters were placed in ...

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References

* G. Cozzolino, P. Desantis "The National Archeological Museum of Ferrara: the Museum of the Ancient City of Spina" SAGEP, 2021, ISBN 9788863737875

Sources

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