![Rome’s “Drugstore Museum” is a Hidden Archaeological Gem](https://cdn.artandobject.com/sites/default/files/styles/eletter_top/public/4d-painted-frescoes_0.jpg?itok=EVSE8RjL)
These tombs are displayed in-situ (they have never been moved), but placed around the museum are finds from other recent excavations. This includes a charming, but unfinished, bust of a woman, likely from a sarcophagus, carved in Proconessian marble from Marmara Island near Turkery. Also on display is a selection of terracotta amphorae (storage and transportation vessels) which brought food, wine, and oil from across the Roman Empire. The museum is small and well-curated (although the…
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