Musée Saint-Raymond
Saint-Raymond Museum
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Type | Art museum, Archeological museum, Historic site |
Curator | Evelyne Ugaglia |
Website | saintRaymond.toulouse.fr |
The Musée Saint-Raymond (in English, Saint-Raymond museum) established in 1891, is a museum located in Toulouse, France, specializing in antiquities.
Contents
History
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Visitor figures
Source: www.data.gouv.fr[1]
Collections
Early Christian necropolis
The early Christian necropolis was discovered in the excavation under the museum between 1994 and 1996 and contains a lime-kiln, about a hundred sepulchres and severals inscriptions.[2]
Chiragan villa
The first floor of the museum contains finds from the Chiragan villa in Martres-Tolosane, 60 km south-west of Toulouse. The villa was populated from the first to the fourth century.[3]
Labours of Hercules
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Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar
Busts of Gods
Copies of Greek sculptures
Emperors
The collection of Roman emperors busts in the second largest in France, after the one of the Louvre.[3] These sculptures were discovered as early as 1826 and represent Roman emperors, two of their wives and nowadays unknown people of power.[3]
References
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External links
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