Venus of the Callipige, a 2nd Century AD Roman copy of a Hellenistic original of the 2nd Century BC, housed in the amazing Museum Baglio Anselmi, an ancient winery for the production of the Marsala wine.
The museum also contains the oldest wreck of a Punic war ship, discovered in sea off the coast of Isola Grande near Marsala, and excavated in the early 70's. Probably sunk by the Romans as Lilybaeum was conquered in the Battle of the Egadi Islands in 241 BC.
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