Images of Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia
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Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia and its collection
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The Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia is the National Etruscan Museum in Rome, housed in the Villa Giulia that was built for pope Julius III. The first rooms of the museum feature artefacts organized according to a double principle: topographical and chronological. Furthermore, the museum includes an epigraphic section, which contains the Pyrgi Etruscan-Phoenician gold plates, perhaps the oldest known inscriptions of pre-Roman Italy. The highlight of the museum is a terracotta funerary monument, called the Sarcofago degli Sposi. Other important objects include a series of bronze mirrors and the Ficoroni chest, a bronze bridal chest.
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