"C. Cellini" Civic Archaeological Museum.
The Civic Archaeological Museum, named after its 1877 founder, Don Cesare Cellini (a Cathedral canon and Knight of the Order of the Crown of Italy), is one of the richest, most important, and most visited museums in the Marche region. It houses approximately 4,000 artifacts, including coins; about 500 of these, naturally the most significant and best-preserved examples, are on display across five rooms and a corridor, arranged in 32 cabinets and on various mounts and display grids. They allow visitors to trace the history of human presence in the Ripatransone area from prehistory through the Roman era. The collection includes lithic materials (Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Eneolithic periods), Bronze Age artifacts, and a substantial Iron Age collection, primarily artifacts from the Picene civilization (9th–3rd centuries BC), most dating to the 6th century BC.
Notable Picene artifacts include necklaces, *anelloni* (large ring-shaped ornaments typical of the Picene culture), helmets, a female burial assemblage, feeding vessels, and *buccheroid* ware (dark-colored pottery imitating Etruscan styles).
The Roman section is located in the final room and the large corridor; with the exception of a few coins, the artifacts date from the 1st century BC to the 1st century AD.
Since 1998, the room on the raised ground floor has housed the medieval section; highlights include an elegant bas-relief baptismal font (dating to the 11th century), a stone triptych, four elegant Lombard fibulae (6th century), and iron and terracotta oil lamps. The adjacent room has housed the modern section since April 21, 2001. Among the curiosities is one of the bricks used to seal the Holy Door of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican at the conclusion of the 1775 Jubilee.
Sources:https://www.visitripatransone.it/museo-archeologico-cesare-cellini/
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