The Archaeological Museum of Milos is a museum, in

Plaka, Milos Plaka is the chief town in Milos, a Greek island in the Cyclades group. It is perched on the top of large rock, overlooking the gulf of Milos. No cars can enter the village because of the narrow spaces between walls and buildings. Motorbikes, moped ...

on 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 The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology () on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of ...

(Oxford), in the British Museum and in the 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. Archaeological Museum of Milos, facade of the building, 152616.jpg Archaeological Museum of Milos, Lapidary, 152665.jpg AM Milos, Lapidary in porch of the building, 152611.jpg

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 Obsidian () is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extrusive rock, extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth. It is an igneous rock. Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements s ...

tools from Neolithic to early Bronze Age. Large pithos, Cycladic Late Bronze Age, AM Milos, 152556.jpg,

Pithos Pithos (, grc-gre, πίθος, plural: ' ) is the Greek name of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and ...

, late Bronze Age Melian amphora, 650-600 BC, AM Milos, no 897, 152576.jpg, Fragments of a

Melian pithamphora Melian Pithamphorae or Melian Amphorae are names for a type of large belly-handled amphorae, which were produced in the Archaic Greek art, Archaic period in the Cyclades. On account of their shape and painted decoration in the Orientalizing period ...

, 650-600 BC Large pithos, 6th c BC, AM Milos, no 542, 152578.jpg, Large

pithos Pithos (, grc-gre, πίθος, plural: ' ) is the Greek name of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and ...

, 6th century BC Obsidian of Milos, AM Milos, 152334.jpg,

Obsidian Obsidian () is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extrusive rock, extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal growth. It is an igneous rock. Obsidian is produced from felsic lava, rich in the lighter elements s ...

tools Obsidian of Milos, AM Milos, 152339.jpg,

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. Early Cyclydic pottery, 3rd mil BC, AM Milos, 152350.jpg, Early Cyclydic pottery pyxides, ca 3200-2500 BC House model, Early Cycladic, 3rd mil BC, tufa, AM Milos A 39, 152550.jpg, House model, tufa. Early Cycladic era, 3rd millennium BC House model, Early Cycladic pottery, 2500-2000 BC, AM Milos, no B 918, 152544.jpg, House model, pottery, from Rivari, 2500-2000 BC Pottery kernos, Early Cycladic II-III, 2500-2000 BC, AM Milos, 152540.jpg, Pottery

kernos In the typology of ancient Greek pottery, the kernos ( or , plural ''kernoi'') is a pottery ring or stone tray to which are attached several small vessels for holding offerings. Its unusual design is described in literary sources, which also li ...

, Rivari, 2500 to 2000 BC EC III B pottery, jug, 2200-2000 BC, AM Milos, 152386.jpg, Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I culture, ca 2200-2000 BC Early Cycladic or Middle Cycladic pottery, AM Milos, 152407.jpg, Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC Red jug, Phylakopi I-II, AM Milos, 152397.jpg, Pottery from Phylakopi, Phylakopi I-II culture, 20th century BC Red-painted goblet, MC, Phylakopi II, AM Milos, B 435, 152456.jpg, Red-painted goblet from Phylakopi, Phylakopi II culture, middle Bronze Age Offering table fragment, Late Cycladic I, Phylakopi III, AM Milos, B 980, 152526.jpg, Offering table fragment, Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence Bath-tub (asaminthos), Late Cycladic I, Phylakopi III, AM Milos, B 885, 152415.jpg, Bath-tub (asaminthos), Phylakopi III, Late Cycladic I, Minoan influence Pithos, Late Cycladic I-II, Phylakopi III, AM Milos, B 153, 152411.jpg, Pithos, Phylakopi III, Minoan influence Melian pottery, Phylakopi III, AM Milos, B 62, 152425.jpg, Late Bronze Age Melian pottery, Phylakopi III Imported Minoan pottery, Phylakopi III. LC I-II, nautilus, AM Milos, B 407, 152474.jpg, Minoan pottery made in Crete, Phylakopi III Lady of Phylakopi, 14th c BC, AM Milos, B 655, 152497.jpg, Lady of Phylakopi, from shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi III (IV ?), 14th century BC or later Male figurine from West Shrine in Phylakopi, 12th c BC, AM Milos, 152486.jpg, Male figurine from West Shrine in Phylakopi, Phylakopi IV culture, 12th century BC Bovine figurines from West Shrine in Phylakopi, Late Helladic III C, Phylakopi IV, AM Milos, 152492.jpg, Bull, rom West Shrine in Phylakopi, Fylakopi IV culture, Mycenaean

Room 3

Ancient Greek pottery. Geometric amphora, 8th c BC, AM Milos, No. B 220, 152559.jpg, Geometric amphora, 8th century BC Corinthian pottery, AM Milos, 152567.jpg, Corinthian pottery Black-figure lekythos, 6th c BC, AM Milos, 152562.jpg, Black-figure lekythos, 6th century BC

Room 4

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. Ancient Greek inscriptions in the local version of the alphabet. Sculptures, Hellenistic and Roman, Archaeological Museum of Milos, 152583.jpg Portrait herm, priest of Dionysos, 2nd c AD, AM Milos no 12, 152586.jpg, Portrait

herm Herm (Guernésiais: , ultimately from Old Norse 'arm', due to the shape of the island, or Old French 'hermit') is one of the Channel Islands and part of the Parish of St Peter Port in the Bailiwick of Guernsey. It is located in the English ...

of Marios Trofimos, priest of Dionysos, 2nd century AD Portrait of man, 3rd c AD, AM Milos no 9, 152582.jpg, Roman portrait of a man, 3rd century AD

External links

Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism
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