Villa Giulia Today The National Etruscan Museum In Rome, Italy Editorial Image

Acroterium representing Achelous originating from the sacred area of Pyrgi in the ground floor of Villa Giulia today the National Etruscan Museum in Rome, Italy. The so called temple A was found in the area of the ancient Etruscan port of Pyrgi, crossroad with the Greece and Phoenician world in 1957. Created in 1899, the Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia houses works from pre-Roman Italian antiquity, especially from the Etruscan world. Among the museum’s most valuable objects are a sarcophagus from the year 520 BC, as well as several terracotta figures such as the Apollo of Veii and the image of Hercules and Apollo vying for the deer, both from 510 BC. The museum also presents a great collection of precious objects from antiquity to the 19th century.