Archaeological Museum of Milos

Archaeological Museum of Milos

Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Μήλου
Location within Greece South Aegean
Location	Milos, Greece
Type	Archaeological museum

The Archaeological Museum of Milos is a museum in Plaka on the island of Milos, in Greece. Its collections include exhibits dating from the late Neolithic to the Byzantine period. The unique is collection of ancient Cycladic art, especially numerous findings from Phylakopi on Milos, from early Bronze Age to the late Bronze Age. The best pieces from Phylakopi are in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford), British Museum, National Museum of Athens, and elsewhere around the world.

The museum is housed since 1985 in a neo-classical building dating from 1870 on the main square in Plaka. In the porch of the building and on the courtyard is lapidary with torsos from the late antiquity.

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Room 1

The first room hosts large pottery vessels since the late Bronze Age to the Greek archaic period, a modern copy of the statue of Venus de Milo and a collection of obsidian tools from Neolithic to early Bronze Age.

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  Pithos, late Bronze Age
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  Fragments of a Melian pithamphora, 650-600 BC
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  Large pithos, 6th century BC
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  Obsidian tools
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  Obsidian blades

Room 2

The main museum treasures: The Bronze Age on Milos: Early Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean artefacts from Phylakopi and from other places of the island.

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  Early Cyclydic pottery pyxides, ca 3200-2500 BC
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  House model, tufa. Early Cycladic era, 3rd millennium BC
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  House model, pottery, from Rivari, 2500-2000 BC
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  Pottery kernos, Rivari, 2500 to 2000 BC
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  Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I culture, ca 2200-2000 BC
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  Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC
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  Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC
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  Red-painted goblet from Phylakopi, Phylakopi II culture, middle Bronze Age
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  Offering table fragment, Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence
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  Bath-tub (asaminthos), Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence
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  Pithos, Phylakopi III, Minoan influence
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  Late Bronze Age Melian pottery, Phylakopi III
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  Minoan pottery made in Crete, Phylakopi III
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  Lady of Phylakopi, from shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi III (IV ?), 14th century BC or later
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  Male figurine from West Shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi IV culture, 12th century BC
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  Bull, rom West Shrine in Phylakopi, Fylakopi IV culture, Mycenaean

Room 3

Ancient Greek pottery.

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  Geometric amphora, 8th century BC
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  Corinthian pottery
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  Black-figure lekythos, 6th century BC

Room 4

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. Ancient Greek inscriptions in the local version of the alphabet.

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  Portrait herm of Marios Trofimos, priest of Dionysos, 2nd century AD
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  Roman portrait of a man, 3rd century AD

External links

• Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
• Official website