Architecture and sculpture

Along with some building materials (bricks, tiles, pipes, etc.), our collections include pieces - mainly marble - which were used to decorate the different public and private buildings in the city: bases, columns, capitals, architraves, friezes, cornices, and more.

Alongside them is sculpture itself, sometimes in the form of decorative reliefs applied to some of these architectural elements, and sometimes free-standing. Among the reliefs, we will refer to the unique case of those that adorned the Portico of the Forum with an alternation of medallions with representations of Jupiter and Medusa.

Within free-standing sculpture, we have public sculpture, with three very notable groups: the Roman Theatre, the Mithraeum and the aforementioned Portico of the Forum. However, private sculpture also deserves special mention, with a notable representation of funerary portraits.