Archaeological Collection Pistis-Corsi (Iglesias)

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The collection can be visited at the Municipal Historical Archives. The collection, which was originally built by Salvatore Pistis, Royal honorary inspector for the monuments, and the excavation of antiquities and art objects from the Iglesias district mandated by the King Vittorio Emanuele III, was generously donated in 1969 to the City of Iglesias by Maria Pistis, daughter of Salvatore and widow of Angelo Corsi.

The collection is made up of historical artifacts of the prehistoric, classical and medieval. Among the most remote ascribed miniature vases, mallet heads and spindle whorls. There are numerous testimonies and the archaeological finds of Attic origin, Phoenician and Punic from the city of Sant'Antioco: vases, oil lamps, terracotta figurines and votive stele in stone dating variables between the VII-VI centuries. and II-I centuries. B.C

There are also relics belonging to the Roman civilization, including a "guttus" sandal, loom weights, scales and pots. And even funerary inscription engraved on the marble. Of significant importance is the collection of coins which stand out a Punic coin of the third century. BC, a Sardus Pater specimen belonging to the Roman Republic, dated the second half of the century. BC, and finally a Byzantine piece of the seventh century. A.D

Taking a step forward until the Middle Ages we find materials including a clay matrix bivalve, vents, a Byzantine capital of ciborium, all from Sant'Antioco.
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