Museum The archaeological collection Faldetta - Building Belvedere - Brindisi

The archaeological collection Faldetta - Building Belvedere.

The elegant building Belvedere, set in Regina Margherita Boulevard, hots the archaeological collection Faldetta,

The Collection, mostly from Apulia region, consisting of a variety of vase shapes (trozzella, amphoras, little cups, alabastrons, lekythoi, amphoriskoi, aryballoi and oinichoai) and of a variety of pottery: Mycenaean, and Corinthian pottery, attic black figures pottery, italiotes red figures pottery, black, brown and red painted Gnathia style, polychrome, achromatic, geometric and sub geometric and in bands pottery. Furthermore, collection consists of some glass paste and bronze finds, some coroplastic samples and Indian sculpture.

Strong point of the collection is the collection is the singularity of some of its objects.

Among these, a proto apulianbell Krater stands out for its artistic and historical value (dated to the second twenty – five years of IV century), professor Arthur Trendall attributed this krater to the painter Tarporley’s circle.