Museo della Città e del Territorio

Stele of Bovara (late 3rd century BC)

This stone was discovered in the 1950s near the Abbazia di San Pietro in Bovara, beside the line of the Roman road that led to Via Flaminia.  Its two-line Umbrian inscription, written using an archaic Latin alphbet, has yet to be deciphered.  The word ATIETE is recognisable and known from the Ikuvine Tablets: it means a college of priests.

Base of a Statue (ca. 100 AD)

This inscribed column was discovered in the valley below Trevi [when ??] and taken to Montefalco, where it was embedded in the campanile of San Fortunato.   It was returned to Trevi in 1840. 

The statue depicted Lucius Succonius Prisco, son of Lucius who, according to the inscription, held a number on important public offices in Trevi.  It was erected by the "scabillares": these were musicians who accompanied themselves on the scabillium, a pair of hinged wooden plates attached to their sandals that they used to beat time.  

This is the only surviving inscription that names the municipium, "TREBIS".  It also provides documentation (albeit indirect) for its theatre, which was mentioned by Suetonius: "On another occasion, when [the Emperor Tiberius] recommended that the people of Trebia be allowed to use, in making a road, a sum of money which had been left them for the construction of a new theatre, he could not prevent the wish of the testator from being carried out" (De Vita Caesarum: Tiberius, paragraph XXXI).

Inscription (ca. 100 AD)

This Latin inscription was found in 1864 near Santa Maria di Pietrarossa during work on the construction of the railway line.  It commemorates Caius Lanfrenius son of Publius, a freedman of Philemus.

Inscription (ca. 100 AD)

This Latin inscription was found in 2004 during the restoration of the pavement of the church of San Francesco.   It commemorates Caius Licinianus, a doctor and surgeon who died aged only 21.

C(AIUS?) LICINI[AN]VS (?) CN(AEI) VESENTRONIS URBANI (SERVUS) MEDICVS CHIRURGVS V(IXIT) A(NNIS) XXI

This is one of only two Latin inscriptions found within the walls of Trevi: the other is embedded in the portal of Sant' Emiliano. 

"Janus" and "Agrippina" (2nd century AD)

"Janus"

"Agripina"

These two marble heads came from the collection of Benedetto Valenti  and  from the 16th century adorned the entrance arch in front of Palazzo Valenti (see the Trevi walk).

• "Janus" seems to be a Roman copy of Greek portrait busts (ca. 480 BC) of Euripedes and Eschinus that are now in the Museo Capitolino, Rome.

• "Agrippina" seems to be a Roman copy of the face of a Greek figure (ca. 440 BC) known as the wounded Niobid that is now in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
  

Funerary inscription (probably 514 AD)

This marble tombstone was found in the 19h century near the church of San Pietro in Pettine, near Trevi.  It is one of very few early Christian inscriptions found near Trevi.  It commemorates Stefano, who died aged 18 in the year of the "SENATORE CONSVL".  This almost certainly refers to Senator Magnus Aurelius Cassiodrus, who was Consul in 514 AD.

Grave goods from Pietrarossa (6th and 7th centuries AD)

This Lombard necropolis, which comprised some 17 graves, was discovered in 2005 near Santa Maria di Pietrarossa.   The grave goods exhibited include those from the tomb of a little girl. 

The tomb of a warrior has been reconstructed, complete with skeleton: the grave good that it contained include the iron dagger in a wooded sheath illustrated.

Plaster casts from San Francesco

These plaster casts were made in the 19th century from the sculpted tympanum reliefs of a king or emperor and a pope on the original facade of San Francesco.  An inscription along the lower edge of the tympanum reads:

MAG(iste)R ANGELO FECIT HOC OP(us) AN(n)O D(omi)NI MCCLXVIII M(en)SE MAII. AVE MARIA GRA(tia plena) DOMIN(us) TECU(m) B(e)N(e)D(i)CTA TU. Master Angelo made this work in 1268.

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