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The Byzantine and Romanesque sculptures and epigraphs are from churches in Faenza and Ravenna. Some are made of spungone, a calcareous stone from the Romagna Apennines confirming the relationships between the cultural heritage and the territory.

The carving depicting Original Sin, originally from a pluteus or low wall in the basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, was recycled as a tombstone during the nineteenth century. The calcareous stone cross (10th-11th century) originally stood on the parvis of the church of Sant’Antonino on the Via Emilia in Faenza, indicating the church to pilgrims. The Agnus Dei is carved into one side of the intersection of the beams and the Divine Blessing Hand onto the other. The stone bas-relief from the church of Sant’Eutropio, with an inscription and date, 1127, celebrating the church’s reconstruction is probably the first dated artwork in the history of Faenza.