Iraklion Museum

THE IRAKLION ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM

The exhibits include examples of pottery in a variety of practical yet imaginative shapes, like this slender libation jug, of the new palace and post palace periods...
... stone carving, some of them of Egyptian origin, that shows the direct links between Minoan Crete and Egypt, and helps to establish the relative chronology of those two regions.
Here a stone lamp of porphyry of the new palace period.
Seal engraving, one of the miniature arts at which the Minoans excelled.
They had evidently developed tools made of materials capable of cutting even the hardest stones.
The displayed seal of semiprecious stone is from the new palace period. (1700-1450 B.C.)
From the same period, when the art of the Minoan goldsmith was at its zenith, is this golden jewel which imitates a lion.
In the New Palace period bronze working was so flourishing that it became common for bronze to be used for works of miniature sculpture. The animal figures, usually smaller than the human ones, are of a great charm.
frescoes painting was one of the most important forms of the Minoan art.Unfortunately the most surviving examples are fragmentary.
Here is displayed a frescoes of a sacred grove.

The collection of the Iraklion museum is almost unlimited, but you will have the chance to see more exhibits while visiting the pages of this Site.

The exhibits include examples of pottery in a variety of practical yet imaginative shapes, like this slender libation jug, of the new palace and post palace periods...
	... stone carving, some of them of Egyptian origin, that shows the direct links between Minoan Crete and Egypt, and helps to establish the relative chronology of those two regions. Here a stone lamp of porphyry of the new palace period.
Seal engraving, one of the miniature arts at which the Minoans excelled. They had evidently developed tools made of materials capable of cutting even the hardest stones. The displayed seal of semiprecious stone is from the new palace period. (1700-1450 B.C.)
From the same period, when the art of the Minoan goldsmith was at its zenith, is this golden jewel which imitates a lion.
	In the New Palace period bronze working was so flourishing that it became common for bronze to be used for works of miniature sculpture. The animal figures, usually smaller than the human ones, are of a great charm.
	frescoes painting was one of the most important forms of the Minoan art.Unfortunately the most surviving examples are fragmentary. Here is displayed a frescoes of a sacred grove.
The collection of the Iraklion museum is almost unlimited, but you will have the chance to see more exhibits while visiting the pages of this Site.