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Municipal Archaeological Museum of Segni: Ancient Signia Tells Its Story in the Palazzo della Comunità
Segni — the ancient Signia, first Volscian and later Latin — was a walled city with acropolis, forum, temples and necropolises. The Municipal Archaeological Museum displays what the territory has yielded during excavations. It is located in the 13th-century Palazzo della Comunità, on the main square. The exhibition space extends over two floors, taking the visitor from prehistory to the medieval age through finds, models and axonometric reconstructions of the ancient city.
The Collections
Among the most significant exhibits are funerary goods from the necropolises, an extensive series of terracotta votive offerings — breasts, statuettes, a head of a swaddled infant, a Minerva, a bronze Hercules, a Venus — and numerous sacred and funerary Latin inscriptions. One inscription documents a certain Hercole of Thimocle Medicus, a local figure from the 1st century AD. There are also Roman and medieval ceramics, decorative architectural elements and sculptural fragments.
The Museum Goes Outside
The museum does not stop inside. It suggests routes around the town, such as the polygonal walls, the Nymphaeum of Q. Mutius, the Acropolis, the Forum area, the Hellenistic Complex of St Lucy and the Temple of Hercules area. It is one of the rare cases in which the museum and the archaeological site complement each other. The specialist library is visitable by appointment.
