The Siritide Museum preserves some of the most significant findings relating to the Greek cities of Siris and Herakleia and the indigenous centers of the hinterland. Votive statuettes and funerary objects from the 7th-6th century BC can be traced back to the phase of the city of Siris. with locally produced figured ceramics, among the oldest made in Magna Graecia. Among the most significant finds referable to Herakleia, matrices for statuettes found in the artisan district, votive objects found in urban and extra-urban sanctuaries and above all important funerary objects are presented. The most famous is that of the so-called Tomb of the Painter of Policoro dated to the end of the 5th century BC. inside which stand out splendid figured vases on which episodes of Greek mythology are represented. More frequent are the grave goods from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. characterized by splendid red-figure ceramics and refined filigreed gold jewellery. In some cases, these are jewels produced by local workshops. The presence of a goldsmith tradition in Herakleia is demonstrated by the exceptional discovery of the tomb of a goldsmith dating back to the end of the 1st century BC. and the 1st century AD. The museum also exhibits some of the most important discoveries made in the Oenotrian (9th-5th century BC) and Lucanian (4th century BC) centers of the hinterland. These are funerary objects of extraordinary importance characterized, in the phase of 8th-7th century BC, from bronze armour, silver and gold jewellery, from indigenous vases with geometric decoration. Worthy of note is the massive presence of amber jewelry and jewelry. Over the centuries, the Italic populations were increasingly directly affected by Greek culture: this phenomenon can be clearly observed by walking through the rooms of the museum dedicated to the later Oenotrian phase (6th-5th century BC) and the Lucanians (4th century BC). ) in which splendid figured vases and other typical traditional artefacts and objects are displayed local.

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