Since 1948
it houses in NINE ROOMS in a
collection of 380 pieces donated to the City of Rome in 1902 by Baron
Giovanni Barracco (1829/1914) from Calabria
Barracco
had the collaboration of two of the most recognized experts in the ancient art
of the day: Wolfgang Helbig, secretary of the German Archaeological Institute
and Ludwig Pollak the antiquarian discoverer of the arm of the Laocoon that
bears his name
It is a
small but interesting and educational museum because it allows to compare and
see examples of sculpture belonging to different civilizations and periods
Entrance “Apollo mutilated
sitting on a rock” of the Hellenistic period from the gardens of Caesar in the Trastevere
neighborhood
“Christian
Sarcophagus”
“Seated
Woman” from Attica (beginning of fourth century BC)
In the
mezzanine two headless statues: “Little girl pouring water from a vase” and “Muse”
Egyptian
art:
Works
spanning three millennia (Old Kingdom 3100/2161 BC to 30 BC)
“Stele of Nefer” scribe of Pharaoh at the table of
tenders (IV dynasty 2640/2520 BC)
“Relief of
the dignitary Ty” from Memphis (V dynasty 1938/1739 BC)
“Relief of
the courtier Akhiti-hotep” (IV Dynasty)
“Wooden
head of a lion” (XVIII Dynasty 1100 BC)
“Two
canopic jars” for the entrails of the dead
“Portrait of Sethi I” (1289/1278 BC) in black granite
“Portrait of a
bearded man”
mistakenly believed to be Julius Caesar but, in fact, maybe a priest (Ptolemaic
period 304/30 BC)
“Hourglass water of
Ptolemy”
found in Rome in the Iseum Campensis (Temple
of Isis)
Sumerian and Assyrian Art:
Two nails
for the foundation of Sumerian temples “Goddess Inamna” and “God Nirgirsu” 2000
BC
“Slab with winged
genius” (IX
century BC). Upper part of a frieze kept in the Vatican
Museums
“Slab with
three warriors on the run in a cane” (VII century BC)
“Tablets with
cuneiform writing” from the time of the third dynasty of Ur (about 2050 BC)
Cypriot and Etruscan Art:
“Memorial
stone from Chiusi” (V century BC)
“Female Head” antefix in limestone from Bolsena
(III century BC)
“Quadriga with woman
and child”
polychrome from Cyprus (about 490 BC)
