Naxos Archaeological Museum
The Archaeological Museum Naxos ( Greek Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Νάξου Archeologikó Mousío Náxou ) in the town of Naxos on the Cycladic island of the same name shows art objects and everyday objects from the period from the late Neolithic to the early Byzantine period. Most of the exhibits come from excavations that have been carried out on the island since World War II . After the National Archaeological Museum , the museum in Naxos has the most important collection of artefacts from the Cycladic culture .
Museum building
The building of the archaeological museum is located in the southeast area of the Kastro of Naxos. Parts of the former Venetian fortification wall with two towers are integrated into the five-storey building erected between 1600 and 1800. Originally built as a Jesuit school, it served as a French commercial school in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The later writer Nikos Kazantzakis spent two years of his school days here at the turn of the century. Later it was handed over to the Antiquities Administration and since 1973 has housed the archaeological museum on the ground floor and basement.
Exhibits
The museum has ten exhibition rooms on the ground floor and basement. The exhibits from the 5th millennium BC BC to the 5th century AD mostly come from excavations on the island since the 2nd half of the 20th century, but also from islands to the south such as Pano Koufonisi and Keros . The finds from the early Cycladic periods from 3200 to 2300 BC are of particular importance . After the National Archaeological Museum, the collection of early Cycladic marble idols is the most important in Greece. Numerous Mycenaean jugs are part of the ceramic collection from the late 2nd millennium BC. Until the geometric period in the 9th to 8th century BC. Chr.
- ground floor
- Room I: Archaic sculptures (6th century BC)
- Porch II: Hellenistic grave steles
- Terrace: a late antique floor mosaic
- Basement
- Corridor III: sculptures (6th century BC to Roman times)
- Room IV: Early Cycladic to Mycenaean Period (3200–1100 BC)
- Room V - VI: vessels from the geometric period
- Room VII - IX: Sculptures, ceramics and smaller works of art from the Archaic to Roman times
- Room X: grave steles and frescoes of a Roman house from the 3rd century AD.
- Atrium:
literature
- Photini Zaphiropoulou: Naxos. Monuments and Museum . Krene Verlag, 1988, p. 79 .
- Náxos, Archeologikó Mousío Náxou . In: Ypourgío Politismoú [Ministry of Culture] (ed.): Archeologiká Mousiá ke Syllogés stin Elláda . Athens 2008, ISBN 978-960-214-740-5 , pp. 202 .
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Coordinates: 37 ° 6 ′ 20 ″ N , 25 ° 22 ′ 38 ″ E