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The present structures in New Smyrna's agora date from after 178 CE when an earthquake destroyed the earlier agora. This was not mainly a commercial agora, but rather functioned for stately matters. This lower level had many different functions...

A calcite canopic jar from Saqqara, Egypt. XXVI Dynasty. (Archaeological Museum, Pavia, Italy)

A Roman bronze cooking pan. 1st century BCE - 2nd century CE. (Archaeological Museum, Pavia, Italy)

A cast of an original 1st century BCE marble bust of Roman general Marcus Agrippa (63-12 BCE). (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy)

A map of the caves and temples at Ellora, in Maharastra, central India. The structures are Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain. 6th-8th century CE.

A marble portrait bust of Solon, the Athenian statesman and lawmaker, c. 640 - c. 560 BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Naples)

A Roman glazed pottery cup mimicking bronze work with leaf designs. 1st-2nd century CE. (Archaeological Musuem, Pavia, Italy)

A detail of a marble statue of Hermes showing one of the messenger god's winged sandals. 19th century CE plaster cast from the 1st century BCE bronze original. (Archaeological Museum, Pavia, Italy)

Roman coloured glass perfume bottles. 1st-2nd century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy).

Roman coloured glass perfume bottles. 1st-2nd century CE. Provenance unknown. (Archaeological Museum of Pavia, Italy).