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CHURCH OF SAINT SOFIA
IN BENEVENTO
THE MUSEUM OF SANNIO
Next to
the church there is the Museum of Sannio, placed in the monumental building of
the Abbey.
In the
centre there is the beautiful Romanic cloister which John IV, Abbot from 1141
to 1177, realized.
The
cloister has a window with three lights and 15 windows with four lights, with
47 columns surmounted by a capital and a dosseret.
In the
museum there are finds of different ages, collected in various showrooms. Among
them we remember:
the
Samnite Room;
the Room
of Isis, with the furniture of the Temple dedicated to the "Lady of
Benevento" (Benevento has the biggest group of Egyptian sculptures never found
outside Egypt);
the Room
of Trajan, with the statues of the Emperor and his wife Plotina;
the Rooms
of Minor Longobardia.
The Museum
of Sannio is also lodged in other two monumental places: the 14th-century
Fortress of Rectors with the historical section, and the Longobard Church of
"Sant’Ilario a Port’Aurea", turned into Museum of Trajan’s Arch.
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Sophia
Aprile
2001 - Sito in allestimento
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