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The National Archaeological Museum "Domenico Ridola"...

The Museum archaeological national Domenico Ridola of Matera is the most ancient museum of the Basilicata. Founded February 9 th 1911 for wish of the senator and physician Domenico Ridola (that it gave his important collections to the State) introduces the numerous testimonies recovered in the territory of the province materana and of the Murges.

The Museum is entertained in the places of the seventeenth-century convent of Saint Chiara and it picks up material from the prehistoric epoch up to the III century B.C.The preserved material in the museum is mainly divided in the five different rooms. There is first of all the prehistoric section the most typical. Here we find material going up again to the paleolitico, as for instance arrows, javelins and axes, recovered in the different places of the Murgia Materana, and particularly near the cave of the bats; there are subsequently the testimonies coming from the villages entrenched of epoch neolitica recovered in the places of Tirlecchia, Murgia Timone, Murgecchia and Greenhouse of tall.This last place is note for the presence of the ceramics type he/she dictates note "Greenhouse of tall", characterized by brown varnish and motives geometric complexes.

The presence of such going up again villages to the neolitico testifies the introduction of the agriculture and the to settle some population, that was nomadic in stable installations in preceding epochs. There are finally going up again recoveries to the age of the bronze, among which the graves of Murgia Timone.There are then two rooms where the objects are exposed coming from the situated centers in the valleys of the two principal rivers of the area materana, the valley of the Basento and the valley of the Bradano: to the first one the documentation belongs coming from the centers ancient correspondents to the actual Pisticcis, Ferrandina, Pomarico, Garaguso and Calla lily of Tricarico; particularly from this last site they originate material of a Roman necropolis, from Pisticci the outfits of the graves to tumult of the age of the iron and the materials of archaic necropolis and the V century B.C., among which the figures vases redheads of the Painter of Pisticci; from the other centers they originate material of the burials of a long arc of time.In the room of the valley of the Bradano there are instead the testimonies related to the ancient centers that correspond to the actual Montescagliosos, Miglionico and Irsina; to the first center they correspond different funeral outfits that go from the VII century B.C. to the IV century B.C. From Miglionico they originate material from the geometric epoch up to the III century B.C. they are You different samples of decorated ceramics finally.n a further room they are exposed the materials coming from the excavations of Matera and outskirts; it mainly concerns archaeological testimonies of archaic age, lucana and subsequently Roman. They are found in this section you equip funeral of archaic epoch, coins, italic bronzetti among which the figure of Ercole with the cudgel and with the arc datable approximately among the You and the IV century B.C., bronzy furnishings of Roman age.

The documentation of great importance is related to Timmari, place to few kilometers from Matera. From the stipe votiva and from the necropolis of Timmari, going up again to the IV century B.C., they originate in fact a lot of figurines votive in terracotta and funeral outfits with armors in bronze and monumental figures vases redheads.In the room Ridola there is finally an exposure of manuscripts, documents and testifying heirlooms the activity of Domenico Ridola, founder of the museum and local researcher of history and antiquity, as well as physician and senator.

Publications
The association collected the result of its own ethnographical researches (testimonies, photos, documents) in a publication, "Tales from the Museum", now to its third edition.

The association also produced a CD-ROM that allows the virtual tour of the exhibition halls, a booklet about the water-harvesting systems in Matera from Neolithic to the first half of the 20th century, and a guidebook to the Museum.