In order to give a full understanding of local archaeological contexts we decided to offer visitors an easy tool capable of putting an object back into its original historical/geographical context, when history or the needs of preservation have removed it, sometimes irreparably.

The collection Aryballoi Tomb in fact includes both the grave goods preserved in the Populonia museum, and the tomb, today in the Archaeological Park of Baratti and Populonia, where those grave goods were found.

The structure is located less than 20 meters apart from the Tomb of the Gold Hair Spiral on the Poggio della Porcareccia, where they were identified by Antonio Minto in the fall of 1933 after somebody attempted to dig them illegally. Minto proceeded therefore to remove the grave goods, while the tombs were covered again following the operations of removal of the ancient iron slags, and only brought back to light during the 1956 governmental excavations carried out by Alfredo De Agostino.