Art and CultureHistoric House and Palace, Archaeological Museum, Bovino

Museo Civico “Carlo Gaetano Nicastro”

The original nucleus of the Civic Museum is housed inside Palazzo Pisani and sees as its original nucleus the collection of the physician Carlo Gaetano Nicastro, to whom it is dedicated.

The place

The paleontological collection consists of about 150 finds, most of which are attributed to marine invertebrate organisms, dating from the Miocene to the Quaternary.

Significant is the prehistoric section, formed by evidence of industrial production (tips, blades, scrapers in flint and obsidian) and handicraft (decorated ceramics) of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. The Iron Age is attributed to two bucchero ceramics. The most surprising elements, however, are the anthropomorphic funerary stelae dating back to the third millennium B.C. They are megalithic stone funerary monuments depicting femininity (stylized) and masculinity (symbolically).

More consistent materials fall in the Roman section: epigraphs, sculptures, a large mosaic rug referable to a domus of imperial age, ceramic materials of local production and import (sealed italic and African, lamps, ointments, painted cups), ceramic dauna (geometric and vegetal), war instruments (bronze and iron girders and spear heads, spikes and needles in bone, an iron stiletto with a bone handle), spindles and weights from a fictitious frame, lamps, agricultural tools (axes and sickles), ointments, glasses, capitals, terracotta pipes, as well as a numismatic collection.

Finally, in the medieval and post-medieval section there are sculptures and architectural pieces from the Cathedral and the church of San Pietro, jugs with the typical "red band" decoration, numerous Renaissance and modern glazed majolica tiles.





Location

Piazza Marino Boffa, Bovino

The village

Bovino

The ancient town of Bovino dominates the Southern Dauni Mountains and the Valle del Cervaro.

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