Etruscan Bronzes. The Archaic Votive Deposit of Bibbona.

Quality exhibitions continue at the Exhibition Center of the Former Municipality in Bibbona's historic center.

Saturday, August 24 at 7 p.m. the “Etruscan Bronzes, the Archaic Votive Deposit of Bibbona” will be inaugurated, a small exhibition with free admission of nine human-figure bronzes, preserved at the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, plus the well-known “Bibbona Goat”.

The Goat, which was probably intended to form the handle of a monumental vase, represents a product of Etruscan toreutics of great quality, datable to the first quarter of the fifth century B.C., as indicated by the accuracy of the modeling and the liveliness of the movement. The Goat represents the symbolic image of Bibbona and had not been displayed in the city since 2005.
It was in 1868 when Gamurrini, in an exhibition of discoveries made in Etruria, gave news of the discovery under the castle of Bibbona, six miles from the sea, of a votive room of 52 Etruscan bronzes including idols, warriors and animals. Gamurrini himself in 1871, in a letter addressed to the director of the R. Galleries, spoke of the bronze goat displayed in the new Etruscan museum, confirming its discovery together with a votive deposit with idols of different forms and fragments of aes rude that he had arranged to purchase entirely for a sum of 300 lire. 

The exhibition can be visited until November 10, every day from 6 to 10 p.m.
Free entrance.