National Archaeological Museum of Athens - Prehistoric Collection
The New York Times has recently (April 2008) published an article on Athens. In it there is a reference to the National Archaeological Museum of Athens: "In neighboring Exarcheia, the renovated National Archaeological Museum (Patission 44; 30-210-821-7724) has classical sculptures and gold treasures from Mycenae". We think of this reference as being the Understatement of the century! |
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Athens National Archaeological Museum: Exhibit 624. Gold death-mask, known as the 'mask of Agamemnon'. (Grave V, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, 16th century BC) |
This is because the Greek National Archaeological Museum in Athens is rightfully considered to be not only the most important, yet also one of the richest archaeological museums in the world in terms of containing Ancient Greek Art! Please refer to the relevant Album as proof of how much right we are!
The Greek National Archaeological Museum is housed in a neoclassical building designed by the noted German architect Ernst Ziller in 1889. It houses perhaps the most impressive collection of ancient Greek treasures in the world. The neoclassical design of the exterior tries its best to keep up with the true Greek classic style of the works it houses. This museum includes the golden so-called "Mask of Agamemnon", excavated by Heinrich Schliemann at ancient Mycenae, the bronze "boy jockey" of Artemision that somehow stayed in great condition despite being fished out of the sea, and a range of excellent sculptures, pottery, furniture and jewellery.
Further wonderful inclusions are:
- Prehistoric items/Ruins
- Sculpture
- Pottery and Minor art
- Bronzes
- Egyptian Art
Operating Hours are as follows: Monday 13.00-19.30 Tuesday-Sunday 08.30-15.00
Telephone Contact: 210/821-7717 Address: 44, 28th Oktovriou (Patission) Ave, Athens, Greece |
Note: Given the huge number of exhibits, this album on the National Archaeological Museum of Athens is progressing step by step: Please visit this Album from time to time to see it growing!
(Photos: Michael Tziotis)
Select Page of the Album:
- The National Archaeological Museum of Athens: Why this Album?
- The National Archaeological Museum of Athens (The Building)
- Prehistoric Collection / Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Graves I, II and VI, 16th century BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave III, 16th century BC (Window 1)
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave III, 16th century BC (Window 2)
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave IV, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Jewelry from Graves IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Gold and silver tableware from Graves IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Pottery vessels, 16th- early 15th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Ritual vases-rhytons from Graves IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Exotic Objects, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Bronze vessels and tools from Graves III, IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Weapons and implements from Grave IV, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Weapons and implements from Grave V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from Graves Alpha, Zeta, Eta and Kappa, 17th-16th cent. BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from the Male Inhumations in Grave Nu & the Female One in Grave Omicron, 17th-16th cent. BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from Grave Gamma and Delta, 17th-16th cent. BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from Graves Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lamda, Mu, Xi, Upsilon, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Bone, Glass and Ivory Artifacts from the Mycenean Acropolis
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Palatial Workshops Finds and Bronze Weapon and Tool Hoards in the Acropolis of Mycenae, 14th-13th centuries BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Imported objects and raw materials from abroad, most found on the Mycenae acropolis.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Clay and stone ritual vessels, used in religious ceremonies (15th-12th century BC).
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Pictorial Style pottery from the Mycenae acropolis.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Wall-Paintings
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Tiryns/The Tiryns wall-paintings
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Tiryns/The Acropolis of Tiryns
Click on any of the pictures to enlarge.
Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Pictorial Style pottery from the Mycenae acropolis.Much of the Mycenaean Pictorial Style pottery of the 14th to the 12th centuries BC, which bears representations of humans, chariots, horses and bulls on large kraters, was produced at Berbati in the Argolis (Argolida) and exported to Cyprus, where it was widely imitated. Birds, fish, wild goats or imaginary creatures (i.e. sphinxes) occur on other types of vessels, such as jugs and stirrup jars. Usually only fragments of these vases survive in mainland Greece, because they come from settlement contexts. In Cyprus, however, whole examples exist, since they were deposited in tombs as grave gifts.
National Archaeological Museum: Gallery IV / Pictorial Style pottery from the Mycenae acropolis (General photo of Window) |
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10535. Stirrup jar decorated with stylized flowers on the shoulder, sphinxes (fantastic creatures with a woman's head and a lion's body) and flowers on the body. |
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1140, 1280. Kylix decorated with a stylized octopus and linear motifs. |
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1272, 7461, 1141, 4691. Fragments of vessels (kraters, cups and jugs) in the Pictorial Style
Representations of warriors and horses (4691, 1141), of a female figure with outstretched arms (1272), of a horse (7461) etc |
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1275. Fragment of a krater depicting large birds whose bodies are decorated with dotted circles. |
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14163. Plaster libation table with painted decoration. A helmeted figure is depicted on one of the legs. |
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1294. Fragment of a bowl displaying a hedgehog below the handle |
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2581, 2685. Fragments of vessels (kraters, cups and jugs) in the Pictorial Style with representations of dogs (2581) and birds (2685) |
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2654, 1309, 1298. A stirrup jar fragment depicting sphinxes and birds (2654), and bulls (1309, 1298) |
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2685, 1303. Fragments with representations of a bird and a horse |
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1218. Fragment bearing a plastic bovine head |
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2675. A fragment depicting a bull-leaping scene |
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3051. Fragment depicting a fish |
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7387. Fragment of a krater depicting a chariot with two occupants. A male figure holding a staff walks in front of the chariot, not visible in this photo |
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7387. Fragment of a krater depicting a chariot with two occupants. A male figure holding a staff walks in front of the chariot, better visible from this angle. |
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Fragment depicting a bird |
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2648. Fragment depicting a fish, exhibited together with various other fragments |
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Pictorial Style Pottery: Fragment depicting two bulls |
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Select Page of the Album:
- The National Archaeological Museum of Athens: Why this Album?
- The National Archaeological Museum of Athens (The Building)
- Prehistoric Collection / Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Graves I, II and VI, 16th century BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave III, 16th century BC (Window 1)
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave III, 16th century BC (Window 2)
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave IV, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Finds from Grave V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Jewelry from Graves IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Gold and silver tableware from Graves IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Pottery vessels, 16th- early 15th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Ritual vases-rhytons from Graves IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Exotic Objects, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Bronze vessels and tools from Graves III, IV and V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Weapons and implements from Grave IV, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle A / Weapons and implements from Grave V, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from Graves Alpha, Zeta, Eta and Kappa, 17th-16th cent. BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from the Male Inhumations in Grave Nu & the Female One in Grave Omicron, 17th-16th cent. BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from Grave Gamma and Delta, 17th-16th cent. BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Grave Circle B / Finds from Graves Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lamda, Mu, Xi, Upsilon, 16th century BC.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Bone, Glass and Ivory Artifacts from the Mycenean Acropolis
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Palatial Workshops Finds and Bronze Weapon and Tool Hoards in the Acropolis of Mycenae, 14th-13th centuries BC
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Imported objects and raw materials from abroad, most found on the Mycenae acropolis.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Clay and stone ritual vessels, used in religious ceremonies (15th-12th century BC).
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Pictorial Style pottery from the Mycenae acropolis.
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Mycenae / Wall-Paintings
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Tiryns/The Tiryns wall-paintings
- Gallery IV / Mycenaean Civilization / Tiryns/The Acropolis of Tiryns
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