Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya
Museum · Girona
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Neolithic material from the lakeside settlement of La Draga, Iron Age metalwork from Iberian sites across the province and a white Carrara marble sarcophagus carved with the four seasons all stand within a few rooms of one another. That sarcophagus came out of the ground near Empuries in September 1846 and was the first object Girona's first museum ever catalogued.
The museum moved into the abbey's Romanesque cloister and church in 1857, a decade after its founding, and became the Girona seat of the wider Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya network in 1992. Its oldest object on display, the white Carrara marble Sepulcre de les Estacions, is an early 4th century Roman sarcophagus carved with figures of the four seasons around a portrait bust of the deceased. It was dug up near the paleo-Christian basilica of Empúries in September 1846 and became the first piece catalogued by Girona's first museum. The collection also holds Neolithic material from the lakeside settlement of La Draga and Iron Age metalwork from Iberian sites across the province.
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