The National Museum Villa Frigerj contains most of the most important archaeological finds of
Abruzzo from
Prehistory to
Late antiquity, including the
Warrior of Capestrano, which was shown to
Barack Obama during the
35th G8 summit. In addition to the
Warrior of Capestrano, on the ground floor are exposed Roman and pre-Roman sculptures, Roman iconographies, a
numismatic collection, and the Pansa collection. The first floor is focused on the history of four ancient peoples of Abruzzo: the
Vestini, the
Peligni, the
Carricini, and the
Marrucini. Among the artifacts exposed, there are three
funerary stela with a
paleosabellic inscription from
Penna Sant'Andrea, aristocratic funeral beds of the cismontane
Vestini people, a small bronze statue of
Hercules Curinus from a
sanctuary on the slopes of Mount Morrone, a monumental
marble statue of Hercules from
Alba Fucens, the
Stele of Guardiagrele dated to the 7th century BC, the
Torso of Rapino of the same age and the
Lady of Capestrano, which is a headless female statue discovered along with the
Warrior of Capestrano. The
numismatic collection is composed by thousands of coins from the 4th century BC to the
Italian unification, such as a rare golden coin bearing the face of
Galba. The
private collection, which was created by the lawyer and scholar Giovanni Pansa and donated in 1954, includes different bronze figures and other
antiquities. == Gallery ==