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National Museum of Antiquities

museum, Ravenna, Italy
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The National Museum of Antiquities is located in Ravenna, Italy, within the cloisters of the Church of San Vitale. This museum houses a significant collection of classical and Early Christian artifacts. These include inscriptions, icons, ceramics, ivories, sculptures, and sarcophagi. Ravenna itself was historically important, serving as the capital of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century and later as a center for Ostrogothic and Byzantine Italy. The city is renowned for its 5th–8th-century Christian monuments, which showcase a blend of Roman architectural forms with Byzantine mosaics.1

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