Inside the Veroli Civic Archaeological Museum, è it is possible to admire a series of artifacts of considerable historical importance. These include a section of the city walls dating from the 4th century B.C. and decorated with rustic ashlar, a fragment of antefix depicting the Potnia theròn or “Lady of the Fairs” and several Roman epigraphs in honor of Gracchus, prefect of blacksmiths, and Lucius Alphicius, duumvir. The museum also houses objects recovered by two admirers of local history, Giovanni Papetti and Arduino Scaccia Scarafoni, who respectively discovered a trilobite oinochoe from the 4th-3rd centuries B.C.E. and a magnificent sarcophagus, now on display near the Monument to the Fallen of World War I and World War II.
The interior of the Civic Archaeological Museum, located in the Municipal Palace, è divided into several rooms devoted mainly to the Hernian and Roman civilizations.
From the entrance, located in Vicolo Casalunga, one enters the first room, where è it is possible to admire the section of polygonal work walls and several Roman epigraphs, including one dedicated to Gracchus, found in the 19th century, and the one in honor of Lucius Alphicius, erected in 197 A.D. by the Colleges of Sevirians and Augustals.
In the second room there are various historical artifacts from different periods, many of which are donations from citizens, as well as materials recovered during the work of cleaning up the cryptoporticus. These include a black-painted oinochoe and skyphos, fragments of bucchero, remains of burial tiles, votive offerings, fragments of floor mosaics, terracotta plumbing elements from the Roman period, and material from the early medieval period.
The walls of the cryptoporticus are also decorated with the remains of a bucchero and a skyphos.
In addition, the walls of this room contain life-size reproductions of the Roman calendar, the Fasti Verulani, and the funerary epigraph found in 1922 in the early Christian necropolis owned by Luigi Reali.
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