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20 mai 2016

"Crustumerium: Death and Afterlife at the Gates of Rome" opens at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek

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"Crustumerium: Death and Afterlife at the Gates of Rome" 

COPENHAGEN.- The ancient city of Crustumerium was a centre for cultural exchange and played a significant role in the early history of Rome. For some 2,500 years Crustumerium was merely a recurrent reference in historical sources. When in 1975 archaeologists located the city, some 15 km north-east of the Italian capital, it was an archaeological breakthrough of the first order. Since then Crustumerium has been the object of numerous successful excavations. 

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Wine jug (amphora). Part of a banqueting set found in a male burial of ca. 730-630 BC. Fired clay (impasto). H. 23 cm. From Crustumerium, Central Italy.

Straight from the tomb 
Realised in close cooperation with on-site archaeologists from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and the Soprintendenza Speciale per il Colosseo e l’Area Archeologica Centrale, Rome, Italy, the exhibition presents significant recently excavated grave goods from Crustumerium. A total of ten tombs are being exhibited at the Glyptotek, featuring skeletal remains and spectacular treasures. Each individual tomb offers an intimate narrative that evoke human life and fate from a bygone era, making tombs much more than just relics from a distant past.   

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Bronze diadem with inlaid glass beads. Grave gift from a female burial of ca. 675-650 BC. Ø. 12 cm. From Crustumerium, Central Italy.

Death and the afterlife 
The exhibition focuses on ideas about life and death in antiquity. The many objects testify to the customs, mindsets and beliefs found in a culturally hybrid society. As such, the exhibition shows how various cultural impulses from antiquity have affected humanity’s ideas about death and afterlife, and how such ideas continue to affect and offer perspectives on our present time.  

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Container (olla) with cupholders. Part of a banqueting set from a grave of ca.730-580 BC. Fired clay (impasto). H.45.5 cm. From Crustumerium, Central Italy

Multimedia approach 
The exhibition is special for its multimedia approach that offers visitors new ways of gaining insight and interacting with the objects on display: three-dimensional photos on a touch screen, a short movie telling the story of the excavations and a virtual reconstruction of the interior of a tomb.  

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Container for jewelry or cosmetics (pyxis)with a handle in the shape of a monkey. Ca. 700-600 BC. Fired clay (impasto). H. 40 cm. From Crustumerium, Central Italy.

Live archaeology at the Glyptotek … 
Last but not least, the exhibition offers rare first-hand insight into the processes that take objects from being archaeological finds to becoming exhibition artefacts. An archaeological laboratory allows visitors to witness restorers work on microexcavation of block lifts been removed as single, undisturbed pieces from a tomb complex in Crustumerium and transported to Copenhagen for this occasion. In addition to witnessing the actual excavation work, visitors can also see and ask the experts about how archaeological finds are treated, preserved, analysed and interpreted. 

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Block lift from a female burial of ca. 800-600 BC. The skeleton of a woman with grave goods consisting of bronze jewelry. L. 80 cm. From Fidenae, Central Italy.

… and live from Crustumerium 
The excavation work currently undertaken at the city of Crustumerium itself will also be broadcast to Copenhagen. On selected days throughout the summer, the exhibition will facilitate live streaming featuring archaeologists at work in Italy, presenting their most recent discoveries to Copenhagen exhibition visitors.

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