Empúries was founded around the year 575 B.C. at the southern end of the Gulf of Roses by the Phocaea people. It is the best-documented Greek colony in the Iberian Peninsula. The Cazurro collection shows objects from the necropolis of a city, which continued uninterruptedly occupied until Roman times. Some of these objects are: ointment glasses, cups and other vessels with red and black figures and terracotta, some representing animals.