(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 05 – ” In the months of closure due to the pandemic we worked as archaeologists in the museum’s deposits.
We managed to identify many masterpieces that had been granted for exhibitions and then remained in the coffers and others completely forgotten ”. Sthépane Verger, director of the National Roman Museum, tells of the hidden work that during the lockdown engaged the staff of the four locations of the prestigious exhibition structure – Palazzo Massimo, Terme di Diocleziano, Crypta Balbi and Palazzo Altemps – caskets of masterpieces that tell the glory of Urbe through collections of the highest value but also a mine of treasures preserved in the shadows that deserve to be valued. ” In recent months – says Verger to ANSA – we have concentrated on many projects, in particular for the Crypta Balbi, known for the collections of the Early Middle Ages but the museum is a tenth of the entire surface and therefore we have started the work for securing ”. For Crypta Balbi the interventions of the ‘Urbs. From the city to the Roman countryside ‘funded by the National Research Council which will be built together with the Appia Antica Archaeological Park. ” This is a great design work by the technical office of the National Roman Museum – he explains – also because they have started a complete survey of the Crypta that did not exist. The restoration laboratory then worked on the ordinary maintenance of the works, those in the exhibition halls of Palazzo Massimo and those kept in the warehouses, identifying which ones needed interventions ”.
” We have been archaeologists – adds the director – both for the statues and for important archaeological contexts, such as that of the orientalizing necropolises of the eighth-seventh century BC of Castel di Decima and Laurentina, two very large necropolises that allow us to reconstruct society Lazio of that era, immediately after the foundation of Rome, with tombs and a lot of material imported from Greece ”. (HANDLE).
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