Archaeological museum in Milos, Greece
The Archaeological Museum of Milos is a museum in Plaka on the island of Milos, in Greece.[1][2] Its collections include exhibits dating from the late Neolithic to the Byzantine period. The unique is collection of ancient Cycladic art, especially numerous findings from Phylakopi on Milos, from early Bronze Age to the late Bronze Age. The best pieces from Phylakopi are in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), British Museum, National Museum of Athens, and elsewhere around the world.
The museum is housed since 1985 in a neo-classical building dating from 1870 on the main square in Plaka.[1] In the porch of the building and on the courtyard is lapidary with torsos from the late antiquity.
Room 1
The first room hosts large pottery vessels since the late Bronze Age to the Greek archaic period, a modern copy of the statue of Venus de Milo and a collection of obsidian tools from Neolithic to early Bronze Age.
Room 2
The main museum treasures: The Bronze Age on Milos: Early Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean artefacts from Phylakopi and from other places of the island.
Early Cyclydic pottery pyxides, ca 3200-2500 BC
House model, tufa. Early Cycladic era, 3rd millennium BC
House model, pottery, from Rivari, 2500-2000 BC
Pottery
kernos, Rivari, 2500 to 2000 BC
Pottery from Phylakopi,
Phylakopi I culture, ca 2200-2000 BC
Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC
Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC
Red-painted goblet from Phylakopi, Phylakopi II culture, middle Bronze Age
Offering table fragment, Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence
Bath-tub (asaminthos), Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence
Pithos, Phylakopi III, Minoan influence
Late Bronze Age Melian pottery, Phylakopi III
Minoan pottery made in Crete, Phylakopi III
Lady of Phylakopi, from shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi III (IV ?), 14th century BC or later
Male figurine from West Shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi IV culture, 12th century BC
Bull, rom West Shrine in Phylakopi, Fylakopi IV culture, Mycenaean
Room 3
Ancient Greek pottery.
Room 4
Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. Ancient Greek inscriptions in the local version of the alphabet.
References
- ^ a b "Archaeological Museum of Milos | Directorate of Archaeological Museums, Exhibitions and Educational Programs". Greek Archaeological Museums. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
- ^ "Renovated Milos Archaeological Museum Opens to the Public". GTP Headlines. 2022-07-06. Retrieved 2023-04-29.
External links
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- Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
- Official website
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