Alvaro Casagrande Archaeological Museum

On the main floor there are four exhibition rooms. The lapidary houses stone, epigraphic and sculptural materials found in the archaeological area of Pian Volpello. The first room houses some of the wall paintings recovered from the domus of Suasa, a unique heritage in the region that allows an almost complete overview of the evolution of the wall decoration of the Roman era, from the Republican age to the Low Empire. The second room shows some of the finds found in the Domus dei Coiedii: furnishings, personal objects in bone and bronze, coins, ceramic tableware and common use, lamps and balsamars blown glass. The remarkable head of Augustus and the lower part of a leg belong to a statue probably placed in a public area of the city. The collection of precious materials such as gems, rings and earrings is of great interest. In the third room are exhibited relics related to the republican phase of the city of Suasa. You can see coins, glass cups, figurines, architectural elements, fragments of floor coverings in cocciopesto and parietal “first style”. The fine pozzo in terracotta decorated with fine relief moldings. In the fourth room are some of the materials found in public areas of the city, such as the forum and the necropolis.The treasures of two funerals from the northern necropolis are on display, with gold rings, amber grains, glass balsamars, pins and bony cases. In the center of the room is exposed a male marble head missing face: belonged to a portrait of Julius – claudia, after being reduced into pieces, like the rest of the statue, to be calcined, that is “cotta” and transformed into lime.