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Archaeological Museum Of Rethymno
The Archaeological Museum of Rethymno is a museum in Rethymno, Crete, Greece. The building that houses the museum is the church of San Francesco, built by the Barozzi family around 1530. Gallery Larnax, Early Minoan, hunting scene, AM Rethymno, 076112.jpg, Early Minoan larnax. Larnax, hunting of deer and ibex, deer, dog, Prepalatial, AM, Rethymno, 076113.jpg, Minoan larnax, probably Prepalatial period. Larnax, ibex, Minoan, AM of Rethymno, 076116.jpg, Minoan larnax, probably Prepalatial period. Larnax, Minoan, Marine style, AM Rethymno, 076106.jpg, Minoan larnax, probably Neopalatioal period, Marine style Greek inscription, Eleutherna, 600-450 BC, AM Rethymno, 076104.jpg, Archaic Greek inscription (boustrophedon script), law against excessive drinking in Ancient Eleftherna, 600-450 BC. Archaeological Museum of Rethymno 37 - Marble statue of Aphrodite, Lappa, mid-2nd century AD.jpg, Aphrodite Rhithymnia, Roman period. External linksMunicipality of RethymnoMinistry of Culture a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Museum
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the art museums, arts, science museums, science, natural history museums, natural history or Local museum, local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the List of most-visited museums, most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, the earliest known museum in ancient history, ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preserva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rethymno
Rethymno (also Rethymnon; ) is a city in Greece on the island of Crete. It is the capital of Rethymno regional unit, and has a population of more than 35,000 inhabitants (nearly 40,000 for the municipal unit). It is believed to have been built on the site of the earlier city of Rhithymna. History Rethymno is believed to have been built on the site of the earlier city of Rhithymna. Some sources mention a city called Arsinoe which some scholars have proposed stood at the same site. Rethymno began a period of growth when the Venetian conquerors of the island decided to establish an intermediate commercial station between Heraklion and Chania, acquiring its own bishop and nobility in the process. Today's old town (''palia poli'') was almost entirely built by the Republic of Venice. It is one of the best-preserved old towns in Crete. From circa 1250 the city was the seat of the Latin Diocese of Retimo, which was renamed Retimo–Ario after the absorption in 1551 of the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crete
Crete ( ; , Modern Greek, Modern: , Ancient Greek, Ancient: ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the List of islands by area, 88th largest island in the world and the List of islands in the Mediterranean#By area, fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete is located about south of the Peloponnese, and about southwest of Anatolia. Crete has an area of and a coastline of 1,046 km (650 mi). It bounds the southern border of the Aegean Sea, with the Sea of Crete (or North Cretan Sea) to the north and the Libyan Sea (or South Cretan Sea) to the south. Crete covers 260 km from west to east but is narrow from north to south, spanning three longitudes but only half a latitude. Crete and a number of islands and islets that surround it constitute the Region of Crete (), which is the southernmost of the 13 Modern regions of Greece, top-level administrative units of Greece, and the fifth most popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the Geography of Greece, mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, spanning List of islands of Greece, thousands of islands and nine Geographic regions of Greece, traditional geographic regions. It has a population of over 10 million. Athens is the nation's capital and List of cities and towns in Greece, largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras. Greece is considered the cradle of Western culture, Western civilisation and the birthplace of Athenian democracy, democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major History of science in cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barozzi
The House of Barozzi was an aristocratic Venetian family that belong to the Venetian nobility. Members of the family became sailors, clerics and men of learning. They were lords of Santorini and Thirassia, and held military fiefs on the island of Crete. Members of the family were involved in the Tiepolo conspiracy against the Doge of Venice in 1310. Notable members * Pietro Barozzi, who in 1192 led a Venetian naval expedition against the Republic of Pisa * Andrea Barozzi, his brother, who sailed with the Venetian contingent led by the Doge Enrico Dandolo in the Fourth Crusade * Benedetto, Marino and Pancrazio Barozzi, who obtained military fiefs in the Venetian colony of Candia on the island of Crete * Angelo Barozzi (died 1238), patriarch of Grado (now in Friuli-Venezia Giulia) from 1207 until 1237 * Iacopo Barozzi (died ''circa'' 1245), duke of Candia 1244–1245, who – according to tradition – in the aftermath of the sack of Constantinople in 1204 conquered the isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larnax
A larnax (plural: larnakes; , plural: λάρνακες, ''lárnakes'') is a type of small closed coffin, box or "ash-chest" often used in the Minoan civilization and in Ancient Greece as a container for human remains—either a corpse (bent back on itself) or Cremation, cremated ashes. The first larnakes appeared in the Minoan period of the Aegean civilization, when they took the form of ceramic coffers designed to imitate wooden chests, perhaps on the pattern of Egyptian linen chests. They were richly decorated with abstract patterns, Octopus, octopuses and scenes of hunting and cult rituals. During the later Hellenistic period, larnakes, in the form of small terracotta sarcophagi, became popular, some of which were painted in similar styles to contemporary Greek vase, Greek vases. In a few special cases, larnakes appear to have been made out of precious materials, as in Golden Larnax, the 4th century BC example found at Vergina in Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia, of gold, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Style
The Minoan civilization produced a wide variety of richly decorated Minoan pottery. Its restless sequence of quirky maturing artistic styles reveals something of Minoan patrons' pleasure in novelty while they assist archaeologists in assigning relative dates to the strata of their sites. Pots that contained oils and ointments, exported from 18th century BC Crete, have been found at sites through the Aegean islands and mainland Greece, in Cyprus, along coastal Syria and in Egypt, showing the wide trading contacts of the Minoans. The pottery includes vases, figurines, models of buildings, and burial urns called larnakes. Several pottery shapes, especially the rhyton cup, were also produced in soft stones such as steatite, but there was almost no overlap with metal vessels. The finest achievements came in the Middle Minoan period, with the palace pottery called Kamares ware, and the Late Minoan all-over patterned "Marine Style" and "Floral Style". These were widely exported aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boustrophedon
Boustrophedon () is a style of writing in which alternate lines of writing are reversed, with letters also written in reverse, mirror-style. This is in contrast to modern European languages, where lines always begin on the same side, usually the left. The original term comes from , ', a composite of , ', "ox"; , ', "turn"; and the adverbial suffix -, -', "like, in the manner of" – that is, "like the ox turns hile plowing. It is mostly seen in ancient manuscripts and other inscriptions. It was a common way of writing on stone in ancient Greece, becoming less and less popular throughout the Hellenistic period. Many ancient scripts, such as Etruscan, Safaitic, and Sabaean, were frequently or even typically written boustrophedon. Reverse boustrophedon The wooden boards and other incised artefacts of Rapa Nui also bear a boustrophedonic script called Rongorongo, which remains undeciphered. In Rongorongo, the text in alternate lines was rotated 180 degrees rather than mirr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleftherna
Eleutherna (), also called Apollonia (), was an ancient city-state in Crete, Greece, which lies 25 km southeast of Rethymno in Rethymno regional unit. Archaeologists excavated the site, located on a narrow northern spur of Mount Ida, the highest mountain in Crete. The site is about 1 km south of modern town of Eleftherna, about 8 km north east of Moni Arkadiou, in the current municipality of Rethymno. It flourished from the Dark Ages of Greece’s early history until Byzantine times. History Eleutherna is under excavation since 1984 as part of the systematic Eleutherna project led by Department of History and Archaeology from the University of Crete led originally by three Classical Archaeology professors: Petros Themelis, Thanasis Kalpaxis and Nikos Stampolidis. Stampolidis has been in charge of surveys and systematic excavations at the sanctuaries and necropoleis in ''Orthi Petra'', even stone quarries in the surroundings of the ''Prines'' hill. The disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aphrodite Rhithymnia
The ''Aphrodite Rhithymnia'' (), also known as ''Aphrodite of Lappa'' (), is a Roman statue of the first century AD found at the site of ancient Lappa, in modern-day Argyroupoli, western Crete, Greece. The marble statue is life-size and depicts Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and sensuality, and copies an earlier lost Greek sculptural type. It is now exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Rethymno in Rethymno town, known in antiquity as Rhithymna. History Creation The statue was created around the second half of the first century AD, during the Roman period of the island, in the ancient city of Lappa, which lies on the site of modern Argyroupoli. Discovery The sculpture was discovered during the time when talks were taking place by the municipality of Rethymno about acquiring the rampart of the town's fortress and converting it into an archaeological museum, when a resident informed the local archaeological ephorate of the existence of an ancient statue buried d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaeological Museums In Crete
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, archaeological site, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography. The discipline involves Survey (archaeology), surveying, Archaeological excavation, excavation, and eventually Post excavation, analysis of data collected, to learn more about the past. In broad scope, archaeology relies on cross-disciplinary research. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
