Ramacca: Museo Archeologico

Via G. Marconi 2, - 95040 Ramacca, tel. 095/653091-653151-653004-653106 (Ramacca Town Hall)

Opening hours: 9 A.M. 5 P.M.; generally closed on Sundays and public holidays; open if there are reservations. Entrance: Free. Services: Guided tours, research assistance, access facilities for disabled people. Transport from Catania: AST and Etna Trasporti bus services.

The "Museo Archeologico" of Ramacca shows archeological findings coming from explorations or from excavation made in the town land from the 1970's onwards. In the hall where the findings are displayed, the visitor can admire the architectonic terracottas, among which we must remember the antefixes with gorgon masks, dating back to the VI century B.C. Among the findings we must mention the four-handled bowls with painted decoration of local manufacture, the small oinochoe found on the fireplace, probably built in Lentini; while the transport jar with a cross graffito on the neck, which probably indicated the capacity, has been produced in Corintho. Even the findings of the Tomb 1/82 of the est necropolis are of relevant importance. The objects are grouped according to the production and the item, first of all the indigenous factories (Licodia Eubea culture) or colonial ones, jars, hydriai, bowls, oinochoai; then the Greek ones of Corintho, Athens and the so called Ionic ones: aryballoi, kothnes, skiphoi, kylikes, a myke, an askos and a long-necked jar; then a series of simple arch fibula with a long bronze stirrup and two rings, one made of bronze and another of silver.

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