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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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Delos Archaeological Museum

Delos Museum was built in 1904 by the Archaeological Society at Athens and originally consisted of the five western rooms. It was enlarged in 1931 and 1972 and in the same period, the exterior of the building underwent great, but unfortunate, alterations. The present exhibition is arranged in nine rooms. Six rooms contain the statues and reliefs found in Delos (one of the best collections in the world), two rooms contain pottery ranging from the prehistoric to the late Hellenistic period, and the last one contains various objects of everyday life, found in the excavated private houses. However, the exhibition is not yet complete.

The museum includes the following collections:
Funerary statues and grave stelae ranging from the 7th to the 1st century B.C.
Pottery ranging from the 25th to the 1st century B.C.
Clay figurines dating from the 2nd-1st centuries B.C.
Jewellery and small objects dating from the 2nd-1st centuries B.C.
Mosaics of the 2nd-1st centuries B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum Plan

Delos Archaeological Museum: Excavation marble finds lined up across the museum front wall

Delos Archaeological Museum: Windows with pottery finds

Delos Archaeological Museum: Windows with pottery and ivory finds

Delos Archaeological Museum: Impressive pottery finds

Delos Archaeological Museum: Ivory decorations

Delos Archaeological Museum: Wall-paintings

Wall-Paintings detached from the Delian houses

Delos Archaeological Museum: Statue of enthroned Hera

Α 3992: Statue of enthroned Hera from the Heraion

Delos Archaeological Museum: Statue of enthroned Hera

A 3993: Another statue of enthroned Hera from the Heraion

Delos Archaeological Museum: The “Diadoumenos” statue

The statue (h. 1.95 m.) depicts a young athlete, fixing the fillet around his head. It is a Roman copy of the famous bronze original made by the sculptor Polykleitos of Sikyon in ca. 430 B.C. It was found on Delos and dates to the early 1st century B.C. Inv. no. 1826. This is a copy of the statue, its original Roman copy is kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

Delos Archaeological Museum: Kouros Head

A 3841: Head of a Kouros; Parian work of the last quarter of the 6th ce. B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum: Head of Kouros

Α 4107: Head of Kouros; last quarter of 6th century B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum: Head of Kouros

4107: Head of Kouros; last quarter of 6th century B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum: Head of Kouros

4108: Another head of Kouros; last quarter of 6th century B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum: The Colossus of the Naxians

A 4094: The left hand of the colossal statue of Apollo dedicated by the Naxians ca. 600 BC.

Delos Archaeological Museum: The Colossus of the Naxians

The left hand of the colossal statue of Apollo compared to the left hand of our photographer!

Delos Archaeological Museum: Group of Oreithyia's abduction dy Boreas

Middle acroterion of the east pediment from the Temple of the Athenians. Last quarter of the 5th century B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum: Torso of a Kore

Parian work; last quarter of 6th century B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum: An incised Kouros Base

Α 728: Base of a kouros bearing an incised inscription 'I was made and dedicated by the Naxian Euthykartides'. The lower part of the kouros A 4052 probably belongs to this base; 2nd half of 7th century B.C.

Delos Archaeological Museum

The Lions from the Terrace of the Lions. Copies of them have replaced these originals at the archaeological site.

Delos Archaeological Museum

The Lions from the Terrace of the Lions.

Delos Archaeological Museum

Delos Archaeological Museum: Apotropaic phallus symbol

In both private homes and public buildings tehre were exaggerated phallic images, purportedly apotropaic symbols protecting the inhabitants from outside evil.

Delos Archaeological Museum

Delos Archaeological Museum: Phallic Apotropaic Symbols and Utensils

Delos Archaeological Museum

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