The Abbey of Pomposa (Part 3): the Museum

Ionic capitals made of Proconnesian marble in the 6th century, likely despoiled from a building in Ravenna and reused for the building of the previous abbey in the later 9th century. This is a particular kind of design called “a imposta” in Italian, an early Byzantine innovation in which the capital and its base are carved as a single piece.

Pieces of a marble balustrade from the original church, one carved in the 7th century…

A section of fresco work from the intrados of the triumphal arch of the apse, 9th-10th century.

A section of fresco representing a battle between Judah Maccabee and King Antiochus, from the 2nd half of the 15th century.

A section of fresco from the outside of the church, also from the second half of the 15th century.

A funerary inscription of the 7th century, which was later reused as the threshold of a door.