The Archaeological Museum of Thebes is a

museum A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make thes ...

Thebes, Greece Thebes (; ell, Θήβα, ''Thíva'' ; grc, Θῆβαι, ''Thêbai'' .) is a city in Boeotia, Central Greece. It played an important role in Greek myths, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus, Heracles and others. Archaeol ...

. Mouseio2.jpg Amts105.jpg File:Amth02.jpg Man and antelope, painting on larnax, Tanagra, Late Helladic III, AM Thebes, 0127.jpg Bull-leaping, painting on larnax, Tanagra, Late Helladic III, AM Thebes, 01281.jpg Ithyphallic male figurine on a bird, terracotta, 700-600 BC, AM Thebes, d0111.jpg Kouros from thebes.jpg Black-figure skyphos, Dionysos, turban, female musicians, 520-500 BC, AM Thebes, 0120.jpg Black-figure kantharos, naked dance, AM Thebes, 0105.jpg Red-figure skyphos, satyr, thyrsos, skin of panther, 500-480 BC, AM Thebes, 0118.jpg Kabeiric kantharos, Kabeirion, 5th century BC, AM Thebes, 0117.jpg Kabeiric black-figure skyphos, Kaberion, 430-400 BC, AM Thebes, 0115.jpg Figurines Museum of Thebes.JPG Amth90.jpg Findings - Cave of the Leibethrid Nymphs.JPG File:Encaustic on marble, portrait of a young man from a grave stele, with an inscription ΘΕΟΔΩΡΟΣ ΧΑΙΡΕ Theodoros Farewell 2.png, A

Hellenistic Greek Koine Greek (; Koine el, ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, hē koinè diálektos, the common dialect; ), also known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek or New Testament Greek, was the common supra-reg ...

encaustic painting Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is a form of painting that involves a heated wax medium to which colored pigments have been added. The molten mix is applied to a surface—usually prepared wood, though canvas and other mate ...

on a marble tombstone depicting the portrait of a young man named Theodoros, dated 1st century BC during the period of

Roman Greece Greece in the Roman era describes the Roman conquest of Greece, as well as the period of Greek history when Greece was dominated first by the Roman Republic and then by the Roman Empire. The Roman era of Greek history began with the Corinthian ...

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Hellenic Ministry of Culture and TourismArchaeological Museum of Thebes - Ebook by Latsis Foundation
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