Displayed on the short sides of the hall are four fragments of ancient Roman funerary art, dating to the 2nd–3rd century AD, which come from the medieval necropolis that long stood in the area between the Baptistery of San Giovanni and the Cathedral. Since the Middle Ages, this type of find has been reused either as noble burials or, in the case of fragments, as decorative elements of buildings. The largest is the front of a sarcophagus decorated with the tragic myth of Orestes killing his mother; below there is a cinerary urn decorated with two cherubs growing in two acanthus spirals. On the opposite wall there are two fragments of sarcophagi, one with a funerary genie leaning on an upturned face and a second with a winged putto holding a festoon of fruit.