Museo Archeologico Eoliano
.jpg) Museum in the former bishop's palace |
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Lipari 
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archeology
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| opening | 1954 |
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Maria Amalia Mastelloni
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The Museo Archeologico Eoliano ("Archaeological Museum of the Aeolian Islands") is located on the island of Lipari in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily . The regional museum was founded in 1954 under the direction of Luigi Bernabò Brea , who was Soprintendente della Sicilia Orientale from 1939 to 1973 . Therefore it is also known as the Museo archeologico regional eoliano "Luigi Bernabò Brea" , but is also known as the Museo archeologico regional eoliano Lipari .
General
The Museo Archeologico Eoliano is located in Lipari on a 60 m high rock within a fortress that was built by the Spanish government in the 16th century. The walls of the fortress enclose the cathedral and the youth hostel as well as the archaeological museum. It is housed in the Bishop's Palace and in a number of other buildings, such as the Church of S. Caterina (the museum's magazine).
Over time, a layer of up to 9 m of volcanic dust formed on Lipari. Evidence of human life since the Mesolithic can be found in this dust . By making comparisons with finds from other locations, it is possible to assign the finds to a specific time.
The museum
1. Prehistory
2. Epigraphy
3. Department of the smaller islands
4. Classical archeology
5. Volcanology
6. Quaternary palaeontology
A: Fortification of the Spanish era
B: S. Bartolomeo, cathedral and monastery
C: Church of Madonna delle Grazie
D: Archaeological Park
E: Church of Maria SS Immacolata
F: Church of Maria SS Addolorata
G: Church of Santa Caterina
The main exhibition is located in the former bishop's palace. The museum mainly contains finds from excavations carried out on the Aeolian Islands. Among the most important archaeologists who contributed to this cultural treasure was, alongside Brea, Madeleine Cavalier .
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The approximately 40 halls of the museum represent on the one hand the epochs, i.e. prehistory, archaic, classical and Roman periods, then underwater archeology, inscriptions, volcanology and paleontology and finally finds from the smaller islands such as Panarea and Filicudi .
Episcopal Palace
In Hall I there are ceramics from the middle of the 5th millennium to the middle of the 4th millennium BC. Objects from the following millennium (mid-4th to mid-3rd millennium BC) are in halls II and III. They are mainly vessels from the Serra d'Alto culture. In halls IV and V, ceramics from the culture of Piano Conte are on display.
Objects from 2000 BC BC (beginning of the Bronze Age) are shown in room VI. Room VII with ceramics by the Ausonians is on the ground floor . The second Ausonian culture is also documented in this hall and hall VIII. The period began around 1125 BC. And ended with the destruction of the places around 850 BC. Chr.
From 580 B.C. The Greeks landed on Lipari and settled there. Finds from this period are exhibited in room X.
Outbuildings
The building opposite the Bishop's Palace contains finds from the surrounding islands. In the building next to the Bishop's Palace, the geology of the Aeolian Islands and volcanism are explained. The finds of underwater archeology and some necropolises are exhibited in another outbuilding . The only known necropolis from around 1400–1270 BC is located in the museum. There are also large pithoi (clay vessels) in rooms XVI and XVII. In these pithoi the dead lay like an embryo, which suggests the desire for rebirth.
In the other halls there are other necropolis finds from more recent times as well as clay coffins from the 6th century BC. There are also objects from the excavations of around 2000 graves on Lipari.
literature
- Paolo Orsi: Lipari, Esplorazioni archeologiche , in: Notes degli Scavi di Antichità, 1929, pp. 61-101.
- Luigi Bernabò Brea, Madeleine Cavalier: Meligunìs Lipàra VIII. Salina. Ricerche archeologiche (1989-1993) , Palermo 1995.
- Luigi Bernabò Brea, Madeleine Cavalier, Umberto Spigo: Il Museo Archeologico Eoliano. Introduzione alla visita , Palermo 1996.
- Umberto Spigo, Maria Clara Martinelli (eds.): Dieci anni al Museo Eoliano (1987-1996). Ricerche e studi, Quaderni del Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano , Messina 1996.
- Giovanna Maria Bacc, Maria Amalia Mastelloni (eds.): Alle radici della cultura mediterranea ed europea. I Normanni nello Stretto e nelle Eolie , exhibition catalog 2002.
- Brigit Carnabuci: Sicily. Greek temples, Roman villas, Norman cathedrals and baroque towns in the center of the Mediterranean (= DuMont art travel guide), 6th, updated edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2011.
- Agnes Schwarzmaier: The masks from the Lipari necropolis , Wiesbaden 2011.
- Maria Clara Martinelli, Maria Amalia Mastelloni: ll Museo Archeologico , Palermo 2015.
- Maria Amalia Mastelloni, Maria Clara Martinelli: Lipari -Archeologia e storia nella contrada Diana , Palermo 2015.
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Madeleine Cavalier on Luigi Bernabò Brea .