Archeological Museum of Seville

The Archaeological Museum of Seville is part of the ensemble on the Museum Plaza de América about 2 km south of the historic center of Seville. It was built in 1910 for the purpose of Aníbal González in the Neo-Renaissance style, there issue a Latin American collection.

Today, the museum houses, among other important finds Punic settlements in Andalusia, which are referred to herein as a culture of Tartessos, as well as the ancient city of Italica, birthplace of Emperor Hadrian. The visit to the museum is free for EU citizens.

Exhibition

The museum is dedicated to the archaeological finds of Andalusia. The presentation differs finds

And finds

  • Antiquity
  • Late Antiquity
  • And the Middle Ages

Archaeological evidence before the arrival of the Romans

This collection is located in the basement of the museum. The heart is the treasure of Carambolo, which was discovered near Seville in 1958. It consists of numerous pieces of jewelry that are made ​​of gold and from a female figure. The inscription on this lovely statue is written in the Punic language. It refers generally to the Phoenicians and the city Thyros in particular. It is believed that it has acted in the Tartessian culture to a colony of the Phoenicians, who exploited the rich mineral deposits of the Río Tinto. Inscriptions in tartessischer language, however, can not be deciphered until today, are an indication that the culture can be traced to Phoenicians as well as on a local population. Since well-preserved finds of Phoenician culture are very rare, the exhibition has an extraordinary cultural and historical significance.

Roman colony and the Middle Ages

This part of the exhibition is located on the ground floor of the museum. Of central importance is the ancient city of Italica, the ruins of which are located just a few kilometers north of Seville. It is the first city founded by the world-power Rome on Spanish soil. The city won in the Roman Empire in importance, was crowned as one of her sons, the Emperor Hadrian. The resulting During the imperial period quarters are called nova urbs / Neustadt. The old town, which was founded in 206 BC, on the other hand is called urbs vetus. The name refers to the veterans of the Punic war, who had settled there. While you are in the ruins of Italica replicas of the original sculptures and mosaics, and the originals are on display in the Archaeological Museum of Seville. Particularly impressive is a Venus sculpture made of urbs vetus.

Paleolithic Classical antiquity
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