Heraklion Archaeological Museum

The Archaeological Museum of Heraklion City Heraklion ( Heraklion ) on the island of Crete ( Xanthoudiou 1) considered the most important collection of antiquities from Greece to the National Museum in Athens.

Objects

Issued include the finds from Knossos, Phaistos, Agia Triada, as well as various other archaeological sites of the island, such as Kato Zakros.

Also on the famous Phaistos Disc ( Room III ), amphorae and bowls with linear font A ( Room IV ), a helmet of boar's teeth ( Room VI ), the snake goddesses ( Room IV ), the bull Springer is here of course ( Room IV ), the clay model of a one-story house ( room V ), the rhyton from rock crystal ( room VII ), the Harvester ' ( room VII ), the unique stone sarcophagus from Agia Triada (Room XIV) and several frescoes ( halls XIV, XV and XVI).

The objects date from the period between the 7th millennium BC to the 4th century AD; at this epoch connects seamlessly to the Historical Museum in Heraklion ( early Christian times to the present).

Until the 1960s, almost all archeological finds were brought to Heraklion; only recently decentralized museums in Agios Nikolaos, Chania and Rethymno were established.

Since 25 July 2007, a small part of the collection is housed in a temporary presentation. Shown are major exhibits from the possession of the Museum.

Construction

Established in 1930, designed by Patroklos Karantinos museum consists of 20 rooms, spread over two floors:

  • Ground floor: rooms I, II, II, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIX and XX;
  • Upper floor: hall XIV, XV, XVI, XVII and XVIII.

The individual objects are sometimes rearranged, but the basic structure of the museum changes only slightly; it follows a mixture of periodic, geographic and thematic sorting. Since 2004, the halls are open to the XVII and XVIII Giamalakis collection again.

  • Room I: Neolithic (7000-3500 BC) and Protopalatial
  • Room II: Altpalastzeit or early palace period (1900-1800 BC)
  • Room III: Altpalastzeit and the Palace of Phaistos (1900-1700 BC)
  • Hall IV: Neupalastzeit or younger palace period (1700-1400 BC) and the palaces of Knossos, Phaistos and Malia
  • Room V: Flower and late period of the palace of Knossos (1500-1450 BC)
  • Room VI: cemeteries of Knossos, Phaistos and Archanes (1450-1300 BC)
  • Room VII: Megara, villas and mansions of Vathypetro, Nirou, Tylissos and Amnissos and the caves of central Crete Arkalochori, Psychro and Patsos and the necropolis of Malia, Mochlos Gournia and Episkopi (1700-1450 BC)
  • Room VIII: Palace of Zakros (1700-1450 BC)
  • Room IX: Neupalastzeit in eastern Crete; Palekastro, Psira, Gourniam, Piskokefalo, Mochlos and Myrtos
  • Room X: Postpalatial: Minoan and Early Geometric period (1450-1100 BC)
  • Room XI: Subminoische, Protogeometric and early geometric period (1100-800 BC)
  • Room XII: High Geometric and Orientalizing period ( 800-650 BC)
  • Hall XIII: Minoan sarcophagi
  • Hall XIV: Minoan wall paintings (1700-1300 BC)
  • Room XV: Minoan wall paintings
  • Room XVI: Minoan wall paintings
  • Hall XVII: Collection Styl. Giamalakis ( Jiamalaki )
  • Hall XVIII: cabaret archaic, classical and Roman times ( 7th century BC to 4th century AD)
  • Room XIX: large sculpture from the Archaic period ( 650-550 BC)
  • Room XX: glyptic from classical, Hellenistic and Roman period (5th century BC to 4th century AD)
Classical antiquity Hagia Triada Boar's tusk helmet Bull-leaping Agios Nikolaos, Crete Pseira Geometric art Lapidary Integrated Authority File
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