The museum's basement houses the
El Carambolo treasure,
discovered in Camas (3 km NW of Seville) in 1958. The treasure comprises 2950 grams of 24-carat gold and consists of golden bracelets, a golden chain with pendant, buckles, belt- and forehead plates. The hoard, initially associated to
Tartessos, has been however interpreted since the 1990s rather as part of a
Phoenician sanctuary; this later hypothesis was verified by new archaeological digs in the 2000s. The treasure includes a small figurine of
Astarte, a Phoenician goddess. Other halls of the museum contain findings from the Roman era, many of which are from the nearby Roman city of
Itálica. The Itálica exhibits include mosaics, statues (including the famous Venus of
Itálica), and busts of the emperors
Augustus,
Vespasianus,
Trajan and
Hadrian. Another of the iconic sculptural items of the collection is the , donated by the Marquise of Esquivel in 1944. File:Placa de Valencina (17889306690).jpg|Valencina idol-plaque (3000–2100 BC) File:Astarté (17449229374).jpg|The so-called File:(Venus Unica) Museo Arqueológico Sevilla.jpg|Venus from
Italica (117 AD) ==References==