GROUND FLOOR
The ground floor is home to a life-size reconstruction of the burial chamber of one of the most richly-stocked tombs in the Chianciano Terme region. This was undoubtedly the tomb of a prince, dating from the seventh century BC and located near the town, along a road passing through the Orcia and Ombrone valleys towards the important Etruscan coastal settlements of Vetulonia and Populonia. The contents of the tomb display clear evidence of the status of the deceased, an aristocrat who in transition to the underworld wished to surround himself with symbolic objects needed for the symposium. These consisted of a rare table in bronze leaf with embossed legs and top and all the symposium contents such as pots and firedogs. Of particular note is the spherical bronze ossuary originally with a wooden head of which only the gold leaf, the eyes in bone and amber from the mask remain. There is a splendid bronze shield embossed with geometric, plant and zoomorphic motives. In the same room there is a very interesting tomb with multiple chambers dating from two centuries earlier, with fetid limestone funerary urns in the form of houses, where the ashes of the deceased were placed, decorated and coloured in bright colour schemes serving as testimony to the chromatic richness of the ancient world.