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| The Capa exhibition drew 3000 visitors in its first 2 months. | ||
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| Robert Capa was an embedded war photgrapher and recoded the liberation of Troina in August 1943. | ||
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| Costumes are displayed in the vestibule of the Palazzo Squillaci. | ||
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| Ornately painted ceilings still to be salvaged. | ||
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| A trove of early C20th finds. | ||
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| The Museum is within the Torre Capitano, a renovated Norman stronghold. | ||
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| Six thousand years of history from the Simeto to the Nebrodi. | ||
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| 7 display cases and a stratigraphy offer a view into Troina's past. | ||
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| Case 1: Territory: Environment and Resources | ||
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| Double Boiler fragments for cheese making c3600 B.C. | ||
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| Stone quern for food preparation. | ||
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| Case 2: Casa Sollima Neolithic Copper-Age c3600BC | ||
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| Coloured Pebbles imported from the coast, possibly used as counters or game pieces. | ||
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| Red burnished pottery, painted decoratiom. Serraferlicchio Culture c.3600 B.C. | ||
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| Obsidian tools and waste material, sourced from Lipari and exchanged in Troina. | ||
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| Daub from the prehistoric house walls, showing impressions of the timber 'wattle' structure. | ||
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| Reconstruction of the Neolithic Copper Age house at Casa Sollima (by Fraser Sturt). | ||
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| Grinding stone for sharpening & polishing axes. | ||
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| Case 3: Helenistic Production 400-300BC | ||
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| Loom weights, some with stamped decorations. | ||
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| Lamps and Tanagra type mould-made female figurines wearing mantles (himation) and veils. | ||
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| Black glaze pottery with floral and ivy-leaf patterns over-painted in white, red and yellow C4th-3rdBC. | ||
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| Stratigraphy of accumulated layers since 1061. | ||
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