Civic Archeological Museum of Etruscan Civilization in Pitigliano

The Civic Archeological Museum of Etruscan Civilization in Pitigliano, located in a wing of Orsini Palace, conserves a collection of mostly Etruscan artefacts dating to the Archaic period (7th-6th centuries B.C.) that were discovered during excavations at the Poggio Buco necropolis and in Pitigliano.

The section devoted to the necropolis forms the main core of the exhibition. The second, on the other hand, includes finds from excavations carried out in the historic center of Pitigliano during the 1980s.

Numerous vases and ceramics can be seen in the museum, such as an olla on a foot with a male and animal figure, dating from 630 B.C.; the biconical cinerary vessel with geometric decoration (8th century B.C.); and a fragment of an Attic Kylix with black figures, attributed to the circle of Exekias (a ceramographer active in Athens in the second half of the 6th century B.C.).