The lapidarium is composed of a remarkable archaeological heritage with Dauna and Roman inscriptions, funerary reliefs, capitals and columns, lintels, and the well of the imperial villas.
Within the realm of funerary reliefs Virtus is never shown without a male companion.
Tre Teste means "three heads", it was named after a Roman funerary relief.
The more extensive Greek collection includes a marble Figure of a man from a funerary relief from 300 BC, bronze sculptures, decorative objects, and gold jewelry.
The vallus is known from funerary reliefs and literary descriptions.
Nevertheless, some funerary reliefs have survived and show the 2nd-century AD notable meeting the gods Min, Seth and Shu.
Etruscan bronze figures and a terracotta funerary reliefs include examples of a vigorous Central Italian tradition which had waned by the time Rome began building her empire on the peninsula.
Traditional Roman sculpture is divided into five categories: portraiture, historical relief, funerary reliefs, sarcophagi, and copies of ancient Greek works.
The show also includes an important group of funerary reliefs, or grave stelai, with their enigmatic and elegiac images, often of people shaking hands, as if bidding each other farewell.
The funerary relief of Edessa is unique in antiquity and the earliest in history on a pig and a traffic accident.