The Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos is a museum in Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece. It is currently open on Saturdays and Sundays 09:30 - 15:30 as of 23 April, 2023, and will fully re-open in October 2023.[1]
Room 1
The largest collection, displaying items excavated at Agia Fotia cemetery near Sitia is housed in the first room. The room also contains many notable vases and several hundred bronze blades of differing shapes and level of sharpness also found in the graves of Agia Fotia. Fish hooks dating back to early Minoan Crete are also exhibited.
Gallery of photos from the years 2005 and 2010
Building of the Museum
Ithyphalic stone, Palekita near Sitia, 3000 BC
Cycladic type pottery, Agia Fotia near Sitia, 3000-2500 BC
Early Minoan bird-shaped rhyton, Agia Fotia, 3000-2500 BC
Goddess of Myrtos, Phournou Koryphi, 2500-2300 BC
Vasiliki ware, Phournou Koryphi, 2500-2300 BC
Horns of Consecration, Petsofas, 2000-1425 BC
Minoan female figurines, Petsophas, 2000-1425 BC
Minoan male figurines, Petsophas, 2000-1425 BC
Minoan small stone vessel, Palace of Malia, 1800-1700 BC
Minoan tripod, Palace of Malia, 1800-1700 BC
Ritual tall cup, Makrygialos, 1780-1425 BC
Triton-shaped stone rhyton with engraving, Malia, 1550-1500 BC
Gold needle, 1600-1425 BC
Clay sistrum, Ag. Charalambos cave, 1800-1050 BC
Goddess or priestess, Myrsini near Sitia, 1450-1100 BC
Clay censer (Thymiaterion), Gralygia near Ierapetra, 1400-1200 BC
Pottery for water at the ceremony, 1350-1300 BC
Late Minoan Larnax no 262, Sitia, 1440-1050 BC
Ancient Greek flask, geometric style, 750-725 BC
Small Goddesses, Greek archaic period
Head of a larger clay statue, Daedalic style, 700-550 BC
Multiple lamp, clay, Olous (Elounda), 700-400 BC
Skull of athlete with coin for Charon, Ag. Nikolaos, 1st century AD
References
- ↑ Η λειτουργία του Μουσείου Αγίου Νικολάου – ποιές ημέρες και ώρες θα είναι ανοιχτό, Retrieved on 21 May, 2023.
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