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| Case 4: Helenistic Burial & Ritual 400-300BC | ||
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| Arciru Tomb 147. C3rdBC. Unguentarium, red-figured lid, black glaze plate & bowl. | ||
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| Troina, Arciru Tomb 142, exc 1978, C3rd BC. Some of the grave-goods, such as the lekanis (typically a wedding present) suggest a female inhumation. Red-figured Lekythos decorated with female head, black glaze Lekanis vase with lid, red-figured Aryballos with female face, black glaze Pyxis bowl and lid with an over-painted decoration. | ||
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| Case 5: Hellenistic life 400-300BC. | ||
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| Use of writing | ||
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| Locally produced domestic coarseware casseroles and pans for cooking food. Fragment of a colander for the preparation of cheese. | ||
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| Case 6: Roman Period | ||
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| Transparent, yellow and blue fragments of blown glass.C3rd-2ndBC | ||
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| Rim of Dressel amphora with rectangular stamp ZOIL with a branch.C2ndBC. | ||
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| Bone hair pins C3rd-2ndBC | ||
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| Case 7: Mediaeval and later material culture. | ||
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| Round based cooking pot with internal vitreous green lead glaze makeing the pot better able to retain liquids. The pot has four handles and a simple linear decoration around the rim and the shoulder. The exterior surface is charred from the fire. Sand was added to the clay to enable it to expand and contract in the heat. | ||
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| Clay tile fragment with a possible CHI RO Christian symbol marked on the surface. | ||
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| Table ware decorated with tin glaze and painted using metal oxides to produce colours: copper-green, manganese-brown, cobalt-blue, antimony-yellow. | ||
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| Part of a large wide mouthed, two handled vessel with a lead glaze on top of a white slip. The clay fired red in an oxygen-rich kiln. | ||
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| WWI water bottle, WWII bullet, post-war stamps. | ||
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| Door with cat door. | ||
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| The first floor hall. | ||
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| Gaetano Miami's distinctive paintings line the walls. | ||
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| C16th green silk Caparison embroidered with silver thread; used in parades commemorating either Norman Count Roger's ride into Troina in 1061 or Charles V arrival in 1535. | ||
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| Reproductions of Medeaval robes used in pagents today. | ||
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| Castle kitchen. | ||
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| The torre Capitano was used as a jail. | ||
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| Books from the C18th are displayed... | ||
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| WWI armament and WWII helment. | ||
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