Audio tour 3. First Floor - Maremma Archeology and Antiquarium

This visiting itinerary begins in Room 13, which is dedicated to prehistory and protohistory, with material evidence from the area between Monte Amiata and northern Lazio.  The passage into the historic age is also the beginning of the so-called Orientalizing period (Room 14), which is illustrated by funerary evidence from Vetulonia, Marsiliana and Poggio Buco. Room 15, which is set up to illustrate the Archaic Age, is mostly dedicated to underwater evidence of Etruscan commerce at sea. In Room 16, the Vth and Vth Centuries are represented by grave goods and a great number of isolated items, mostly in bronze, traceable to various locations. The phase of conquest and Romanization, which matches the Hellenistic Age (IIIrd-Ist Centuries BC) is spread out over three rooms (17,18 and 19), which bear evidence of Etruscan cultural persistence, as well as innovations introduced by the conquerors and Latin epigraphs. The Roman period also restarted maritime commerce: there is a collection of amphoras and anchors alongside a reconstruction of the African shipwreck of Giglio Porto (Room 21), and the discoveries from Castiglione della Pescaia (Room 20). Room 22 is dedicated to the middle and late imperial periods. The exhibit in the last room of section 3 (Room 23) was intended to collect and showcase all of the items which had formerly been accumulated in the museum, without enough information about their origins or the context of their discovery.