Musée Saint-Raymond
 Saint-Raymond Museum | |
  Location within Toulouse | |
| Coordinates | 43°36′28″N 1°26′28″E / 43.607867°N 1.441125°E |
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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.
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]
Lime-kiln
Lime-kiln.jpg)
Latin epitaph
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]
Roman bust of an armoured man
Labours of Hercules
Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar
Copies of Greek sculptures
Minerva
Athena-Minerva
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]
Overview of the gallery
Bust of Augustus
Trajan bust, Opferbildtypus
Unknown woman. Sculpture made between 125 and 135 AD
References
- ↑ "Fréquentation 2006-2010 des Musées de France - Midi-Pyrénées". data.gouv.fr (in French). 3 November 2011.
- ↑ "Nécropoles" [Necropolis] (in French). Musée Saint-Raymond.
- 1 2 3 "La villa romaine de Chiragan" [Roman villa of Chiragan]. saintraymond.toulouse.fr (in French). Musée Saint-Raymond.
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