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Origini. Vita e morte nell’Età del Ferro Sale espositive
The Clock Tower in Porto Sant’Elpidio, the historic landmark of the marine town, which overlooks the town square, hosts the Archaeological Permanent Exhibition “Origins: Life and Death in the Iron Age. The Piceno necropolis of Porto Sant’Elpidio” dedicated to one of the most significant Piceno archaeological sites of the Marche region, basically unpublished and dated to the early Iron Age (9th-7th century BC) with testimonials of up to VII and part of the VI century BC. The exhibition, established in 2010 in areas on the ground floor of the Tower, exhibits numerous funerary artifacts, fruit of successive excavations and discoveries since 1917 in several places throughout Porto Sant’Elpidio’s locations (Pian di Torre, Corva, Pescolla) and rebuilt by patient work of reattribution after the dispersion caused by the bombing of the Archaeological Museum of Ancona during the last World War II. The exhibition includes prestigious ornaments made of bronze, iron, amber, bone and terracotta, like the dual-plated chest pendants with ornithomorph heads, fibulae, necklaces and earrings, items that in the richer female graves reach substantial levels of complexity. Razors, broaches and weapons instead characterize male burials, and help rebuild the role played by the community, in the territory of the Piceno Porto Sant’Elpidio, in the commercial trading system in central Italy during the early Iron Age. Throughout the exhibition route, the graphical reconstructions allow visitors to discover various aspects of the daily life of the period and to understand the organization of the Piceno community, characterized by a certain degree of social differentiation, observable by the presence of prestigious ornaments of high symbolic value, in only some burials. In addition, the graphic apparatus also reconstruct the history of the excavations, or rather more, the extraordinary cooperation between the residents of the areas object of the research and the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici, (Supervisory Body of Archaeological Findings), a cooperation which has made it possible to preserve and study an important historical legacy not only for the youngest municipality in the province of Fermo (constituted in 1952), but also for the entire region of the Marche.
Ornamenti maschili e femminili