Archaeological Museum of Polizzi Generosa
The Archaeological Civic Museum of Polizzi Generosa is housed in a wing of the seventeenth-century Jesuit College, today Palazzo Comunale, and includes an important stratigraphic section, an educational section and a typological section.
The stratigraphic section displays, from the most recent to the oldest layer, the finds of 50 burials dating from the 2nd century BC. to the 4th century BC The most significant find is the Protosiceliota amphora with Herakles and the Nemean lion, datable to the first half of the 4th century BC. which bears, on the main side, the scene of the fight between Herakles and the lion rendered with a certain vivacity, and on the other side a scene of dressing table. Many of the funerary objects on display refer to children and sometimes infants, as evidenced not only by the presence of miniaturistic jars, toys, but the same type of tomb and the ritual adopted. Infants were buried while for adolescents and adults the rite of cremation was adopted and less frequently that of burial.
Finally, in the section of the Madonite district, there are some panels that give a a picture of the archaeological value of the territory, taking stock of significant or little-known excavations such as those of the Grotta del Vecchiuzzo di Petrolio Sottana and Caltavuturo.
In the typological section the most recurring categories are presented evidence of material culture.
