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ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Photo: Πάρις Ταβιτιάν  © Museum of Cycladic Art Marble Colossal Kore statue from Thera, 600-575 π.Χ.  The colossal marble Kore from the cemetery of the ancient city of Thera is one of the few sculptural works of the Archaic period, in the characteristic type of Kore, preserved complete. The slender female figure dressed in the full-length garment, under which the feet are barely visible. Her left arm is lowered in contact with the body, while the right arm, that is bent at the elbow, touches the chest, which is only just indicated. The Kore, made of Naxian marble, was found in a supine position, in an area of archaic burials of the 7th and the 6th centuries BC and, according to the excavator Charalambos Sigalas, it was intended to function as a sema, namely a marker over the grave of an eminent Theran woman. However, as the processing of the sculpture was not completed, possibly due to an accident at the final carving stage, the statue was buried in a supine position ...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ "The Lady of Kalymnos" is a very well preserved ancient Greek bronze statue of a woman whose body is covered with a tunic and a chiton and a fringed himation, with a height of 1.98 meters. The sculpture was found in the nets of a local fisherman ("It was accidentally found by A. Chatzantoniou, caught in his fishing nets, and handed over to the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities.")in the sea area between Pserimos and Kalymnos in 1994. 3rd century BCE, Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos "It is not a work from Kalymnos, as it originates from a sunken ship that most likely transported it from Asia Minor." A headless bronze statue dating back to the Hellenistic period, weighing 300 kilograms and standing two meters tall, was recently caught by Turkish fishermen off the coast of Marmaris, near Halicarnassus. Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos The Archaeological Museum of Kalymnos, inaugurated in 2009, presents through its rich collection the history and t...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Bull from the grave enclosure of Dionysios of Kollytos, near the Way of the Tombs (345-350 BC) The bull stood on a high pedestal in the middle of the grave enclosure, behind a naiskos on which were cared epigrams and the name and patronymic of the deceased, Dionysios son of Alphinos. Dionysios, who died unmarried, lived in the deme of Kollytos, near the Kerameikos, and on the island of Samos, where he served as trasurer of the Heraion for the year 346/5 BC. Kerameikos, Ancient Graveyard, Athens, Greece. Collytus or Kollytos (Ancient Greek: Κολλυτός) was a deme of ancient Attica, located in the city of Athens. It was located within the walls of Themistocles, south of the Areopagus and southwest of Acropolis. It was famed due to its association with Plato, whose family was from this deme. Αγόρι κάθεται μπροστά από τον τάφο του Διονυσίου του Κολλυτού (τέλη 4ου αιώνα π.Χ.) στην Οδό των Τάφων στο αρχαίο ελληνικό Κοιμητήριο του Κεραμεικού, Αθήνα, φωτογραφία του Γερμανού φωτογράφου W...

ENGLISH Ελληνική ιστορία  /  Αρχαία Ελλάδα  -  Τεχνουργήματα  / Αγάλματα / Statues -    Τελευταίες Αναρτήσεις Ένα μολοσσικό κυνηγόσκυλο, σπάνιου γλυπτού τύπου, τοποθετημένο ως ακρωτήριο στον ταφικό περίβολο του Λυσιμαχίδη, στην οδό των τάφων. Ca. 320 π.Χ. Αριθμός Πρόσβασης: P 670. Στοά στον προαύλιο χώρο. Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Κεραμεικού στην Αθήνα, Ελλάδα. Κεραμικό Άγαλμα Σκύλου στον Κεραμεικό, 1944 Κείμενο: Επιγραφή Μουσείου. Μολοσσός / Μολοσσός σκύλος.

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Mask of Dionysos,1st cent. BC Left half of mask larger than life size depicting Dionysos. It was found on the Acropolis' south slope where the god’s sanctuary was also located. Here Dionysos is old with thick beard and rich hair adorned with a band. Another band or stephane made of some other material, possibly metal, must have fitted into the small drills on the right. The god gazes to the ground indicating that the mask was suspended in an elevated position and the narrow depression on its upper part would have facilitated its fastening to another surface. The mask would have been set up on the trunk of a tall tree or a column dressed with garments, around which ecstatic dances and other religious performances would have taken place. Although similar scenes with masks of Dionysos erected in his sanctuaries are known through vase painting iconography, the mask of the Acropolis Museum is one of the few examples that have survived to our days. Info The Acropolis Museum

ENGLISH Ελληνική ιστορία  /  Αρχαία Ελλάδα  -  Τεχνουργήματα  / Αγάλματα / Statues -    Τελευταίες Αναρτήσεις Προσωπείο Διονύσου, 1ος αι. π.Χ. Αριστερό τμήμα προσωπείου Διονύσου, μεγέθους μεγαλύτερου του φυσικού. Βρέθηκε στη νότια πλαγιά της Ακρόπολης, όπου βρισκόταν και το ιερό του θεού. Ο Διόνυσος παριστάνεται ηλικιωμένος, με πυκνή γενειάδα και πλούσια μαλλιά στολισμένα με ταινία. Μια ακόμη ταινία ή στεφάνη από άλλο υλικό, πιθανότατα μέταλλο, θα στερεωνόταν στις μικρές οπές στα δεξιά. Το βλέμμα του θεού είναι στραμμένο προς τα κάτω, ένδειξη ότι το προσωπείο ήταν τοποθετημένο ψηλά, ενώ η εγκοπή στο πάνω μέρος χρησίμευε για τη στερέωσή του. Το προσωπείο θα ήταν στημένο σε ψηλό κορμό δέντρου ή σε κίονα ντυμένο με ενδύματα και γύρω του θα τελούνταν οργιαστικοί χοροί και άλλα θρησκευτικά δρώμενα. Παρόμοιες σκηνές με προσωπεία του Διονύσου στημένα σε ιερά του είναι γνωστές κυρίως από την αγγειογραφία ενώ το προσωπείο του Μουσείου Ακ...

ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Head of a goddess statue. Probably Aphrodite Head of an acrolithic statue of a goddess. It was found in 1857 in the Odeion of Herodes Atticus. The statue is probably a copy of a chryselephantine work of the 5th or 4th cent. BC and possibly depicts Aphrodite. The upper part of the head has an oblique cut and is worked in a way as to receive an additional probably wooden piece which would have been firmly secured with dowels in the grooves seen on the top. The hair is coloured with red paint which served as the foundation for its final gilding with fine gold leaves. The marble of the face has been highly polished to resemble ivory; the eyes were made with inlaid ivory, the irises with black stone and the eyelashes with bronze. The oxydisation of the eyelashes has produced the extant stains on the cheeks which have flowed down from the eyes as if they were tears. Info The Acropolis Museum

Ελληνική ιστορία  /  Αρχαία Ελλάδα  -  Τεχνουργήματα  / Αγάλματα / Statues -    Τελευταίες Αναρτήσεις Η "Κυρά της Φυλακωπής", πήλινο γραπτό γυναικείο ειδώλιο θεάς ή ιέρειας, από το μυκηναϊκό "ιερό" της Φυλακωπής έναν από τους σημαντικότερους προϊστορικούς οικισμούς στο Αιγαίο. 14ος αιώνας π.Χ. Θεωρείται ότι αναπαριστά τη Μητέρα Θεά, σύμφωνα με τη μυκηναϊκή θρησκεία. Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο της Μήλου The Lady of Phylakopi. Wheel-made female figurine of a goddess or priestess from West Shrine in Phylakopi. Height 45 cm. Late Helladic III A period, Phylakopi III, probably 14th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Milos, Cat. no. B 655. Discovered by Colin Renfrew, Excavations 1974-77.