Antiquarium Silio Italico

About the museum

The museum was founded in 1966 on the initiative of Professor Salvatore Ferraro, after the many finds made in the Vico Equense area. A first home in the Sozi Carafa college was abandoned when the premises were taken over by the diocesan curia. After a temporary arrangement in the civic library, the collection found a home in the town hall on Corso Filangieri.

The display occupies three rooms and includes more than two hundred finds, largely from the Sorrento peninsula, discovered between the 1960s and 1970s: grave goods from an archaic necropolis with more than two hundred tombs, bucchero, Attic, Corinthian and Ionian pottery, bronze vessels, fibulae and the weapons of Italic peoples. Information panels illustrate the excavation campaigns.

Highlights

• Black-figure and red-figure vases
• Bronzes from the archaic necropolis of Vico Equense
• Corinthian and Ionian pottery and bucchero
• Duck-billed vessel known as the “pizzipapera”

Permanent exhibition

• Collezione archeologica permanente – Finds from the 7th century BC to the Roman period, in three rooms: Attic vases, Etruscan and Campanian bronzes, and Corinthian and Ionian pottery.

Founded

1966

Operated by

Comune di Vico Equense

Visitors per year

approx. 1,011

Admission & discounts

Admission is free.

Free admission.

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