Western Sicily - Sicily - page 204

3 Insula Romana B1

4 Museo Archeologico Baglio Anselmi A2

5 Museo degli Arazzi Fiammingi C3

6 Palazzo VII Aprile C3

7 Piazza Della Repubblica C3

Sleeping

8 Hotel Carmine B3

9 Il Profumo del Sale C3

Eating

10 Divino…Rosso B2

11 Il Gallo e l'Innamorata D4

12 San Lorenzo Osteria B3

Drinking & Nightlife

13 Enoteca Comunale B2

Sights & Activities

Museo Archeologico

MUSEUM

Baglio Anselmi
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( 0923 95 25 35; Lungomare Boeo; adult €4, EU citizen 18-25yr or 65+ €2; 9am-8pm Tue-Sun, 9am-1.30pm
Mon) Marsala's finest treasure is the partially reconstructed remains of a Carthaginian
liburna (warship) sunk off the Egadi Islands during the First Punic War. Displayed along-
side objects from its cargo, the ship's bare bones provide the only remaining physical
evidence of the Phoenicians' seafaring superiority in the 3rd century BC, offering a
glimpse of a civilisation extinguished by the Romans.
Among the objects found on board the ship and displayed here are ropes, cooking pots,
corks from amphorae, a brush, olive stones, a sailor's wooden button and even a stash of
cannabis. In an adjacent room are other regional archaeological artefacts including a
marble statue known as La venere di lilybaeum (The Venus of Lilybaeum) and some mo-
saics from the 3rd and 5th centuries AD.