Delos Archaeological Site & Museum
Despite its diminutive size, Delos is one of the most important archaeological sites in Greece, and certainly the most important in the Cyclades. Delos was a place of such importance that the surrounding islands were known as the Cyclades, since it was thought that they lay in a circle round the island on which the Apollo-Sun, god of day light and Artemis-Moon, goddess of night light were born. The special importance of Delos is emphasized by the fact that, geographically, it lies on the straight line on which also Dodona, Delphi and the Acropolis Parthenon are!
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The Shopping QuarterThe main shopping went on by the commercial ports. Part of this area has gradually submerged under the sea level, as seen in our photos. There were also workshops scattered here and there in the same area, including a few olive-oil presses. To really imagine what that marketplace looked like, one must remember that, at some point, more than 30,000 people used to live on Delos! The actual shops were used to store goods, but the actual market activities took place in the open, exactly in the same way as in Cyclades today! During the hot summers, shade was provided by provisional awnings supported by wooden poles secured in holes still visible in the granite flagstones paving the pedestrian ways. Taking into consideration the strong winds prevailing here throughout summer, one can almost hear the flapping sound of all canvas shades streched out into the wind.
The Shopping Quarter |
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The Shopping Quarter |
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The Shopping Quarter |
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The Shopping Quarter |
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The Shopping Quarter
In the background the attentive visitor can discern the columns of the house of Dionysus |
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The Shopping Quarter |
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The Shopping Quarter |
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The Shopping Quarter |
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The Shopping Quarter
A shop in the street to the theater |
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The Shopping Quarter
All of the buildings featured underground cisterns to collect tha rain water |
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The Shopping Quarter
Another opening to the shop-owner's water provisions |
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The Shopping Quarter
Further up the theater street a marble bench, probably of a ahop selling fish, identical to the ones found at all such shops in the Cyclades today! |
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