Archaeological Museum of Nafplio

Archaeological Museum of Nafplio (Nauplion)

Object location	37° 33′ 57.87″ N, 22° 47′ 46.77″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	37.566076; 22.796324

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Building

Former Venetian arsenal, built in 1713

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  Bronze age collections
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  Greek Geometric period

Paleolithic

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  Obsidian of Melos

Mesolithic

7500 - 6000 BC BC

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Neolithic

Findings from Franchthi Cave, 6500-3200 BC

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  5800-3200 BC
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  6500-3700 BC
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  Jewellery, 6500-3200 BC
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  Figurines, 6500-3200 BC
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  5800-3200 BC
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  5800-4500 BC

Early Bronze Age

Early Helladic

Early Bronze Age on the Greek mainland, 3rd millennium BC

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  Neolithic - EH II

Early Helladic II

2700-2200 BC, findings from Tiryns, Epidavros, Asine

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  Cooler
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  Pithos fragment with spirals
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  Rim of hearth
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  "Sauceboat"
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  Askoi
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  Jug
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  "Sauceboat"
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  Stone seals
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  Sealings
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  Stone weights
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  Mortar and pestle, tools

Early Helladic III

2200-2000 BC, findings from Tiryns and Berbati

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  Askos with scorpions
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  Depas
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  Tankard
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  Askos

Early Cycladic

Early Cycladic II, 2800-2200 BC. Early Cycladic III, 2200-2000 BC. Findings from Epidavros and Tiryns.

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  Early Cycladic findings from Tiryns
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  Spedos variety, EC II
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  Spedos variety, EC II
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  Frying-pan from Tiryns
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  Pyxis, EC II

Middle Helladic

Middle Bronze Age, 2000-1600/1550 BC

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  Burial at Berbati, 18th century BC

16th century BC

This is problematic: Mature Middle Helladic or rather Lahe Helladic I A, and also Minyan

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  16th century BC
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  1600-1550 BC
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  1600-1550 BC
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  Minyan amphoriskos

Imported bronze age potery

Minoan and Canaanite

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  Minoan askos, 1600-1550 BC
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  Minoan amphora, 1400-1300 BC
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  Canaanite jar, 1300-1200 BC

Late Helladic antiquities

Greek art of the Late Bronze Age, Mycenaean culture, 1550-1050 BC

Metalware

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  1500-1400 BC
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  Silver cup with golden rim, 1500-1450 BC
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  Silver handle, 1500-1400 BC
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  Silver cup, end of 15th c BC
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  Bronze basin, end of 15th c BC
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  Bronze bowl, end of 15th c BC
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  Bronze mirror with ivory handle, 1500-1350 BC
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  Bronze phiale, 1180-1150 BC

Weapons and armour

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  Hunting and Warfare
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  Bronze weapons, 1500-1450 BC
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  Shoulder guard, 1500-1400 BC

Dendra panoply

Mycenaen armour and boar's tusk helmet from chamber tomb 12 of Dendra cementery, end of 15th century BC.

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Pottery

Vitrines

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  Nafplion, Evangelistria
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  Palea Epidavros
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  Palea Epidavros
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  Palea Epidavros
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  Midea and Tiryns

Chronologically

LH II (or also LH IB) - LH III pottery, 1500-1050 BC

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  1500-1450 BC
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  1500-1450 BC
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  1500-1450 BC
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  1500-1400 BC
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  1450-1400 BC
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  1450-1400 BC
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  1450-1400 BC
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  Alabastra, end of 15th century BC
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  Tiryns, 14th c BC
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  1350-1300 BC
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  1350-1250 BC
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  Jug with griffins
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  Krater with lyre player
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  Nafplion, 1350-1250 BC
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  1300-1250 BC
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  Kylix, 1300-1250 BC
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  Stand, 1300-1250 BC
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  Stirrup jars, 1300-1250 BC
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  Amphoroid krater, 1300-1250 BC
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  Bell krater, 1250-1200 BC
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  1300-1180 BC
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  Strainer jug, 1250-1200 BC
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  End of 13th c BC
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  Tiryns, 1250-1180 BC
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  Tripod gridle tray, 1250-1180 BC
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  Gridle tray, 1250-1200 BC
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  12th century BC
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  Stirrup jar, 1180-1150 BC
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  Amphora, 1180-1150 BC
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  Stirrup jar, 1150-1100 BC
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  1180-1050 BC
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  1180-1050 BC

Storage vessels

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  1500-1450 BC
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  1500-1450 BC
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  1500-1450 BC
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  1400-1300 BC
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  1350-1300 BC
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  13th c BC
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  1250-1200 BC
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  1250-1200 BC
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  1250-1200 BC
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  With carbonized figs

Terracotta figurines

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Bird Goddesses

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  Psi type, 1400-1300 BC
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  Enthroned, 1350-1300 BC
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  Psi type, 1350-1200 BC
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  1400-1300 BC
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  1350-1300 BC
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  1300-1250 BC
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Frescos

From Tiryns

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  Stucco offering table, 1600-1300 BC
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  Fresco, 13th c BC
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  Panel from plastered floor
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  with dolphins, 13th c BC

Small objects

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  Carnelian sealstones, 15 th century BC
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  Ivory inlays, 1500-1400 BC
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  Linear B tablets, 1300-1100 BC
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  From Palea Epidavros

Jewelry

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  Leaves of golden foil, 1500-1450 BC
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  Glass and faience beads, 1500-1400 BC
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  1500-1450 BC
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  Gold and glassware, 1500-1350 BC
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  Gold, 1500-1350 BC
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  Bull-head shaped bead of rock-crystal, 1500-1350 BC
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  Glass ornaments, 1500-1300 BC
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  Glass beads, 1400-1300 BC
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  Gold jewelry, 1400-1300 BC

Iron Age

Sub-Mycenaean

Early Iron age, 1050-900 BC, here mostly from Tiryns

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  Sub-Mycenaean antiquities
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  Bronze helmet, 1050-1025 BC
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  Jewelry, 1025-900 BC

Sub-Mycenaean pottery

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  Skyphos
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  Amphoriskos
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  Amphoriskos
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  Feeding bottle
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  Kalathos
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  Skyphos
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  Amphoriskos, Trefoil mouthed jug

Geometric period

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  Small bronze deer, 730-690 BC

Geometric pottery

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  Double spiral, 800 BC
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  (Late?) 8th cent. BC
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  From graves, 900-690 BC
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  Barrel oinochoe, 750-730 BC
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  Heroic motifs, 750-690 BC
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  Tiryns, 730-690 BC
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  Krater, 700 BC
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  Asine, 700 BC
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  Terracotta votive shield
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  early 7th BC
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  Terracotta votive shield
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Archaic period

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  Doric capital, 7th c BC
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  Small bronze kouros, 560-540 BC
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  Pair of iron reinforcements for sandals, 500-475 BC
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  From Halieis
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  Hermione, 520-475 BC

Pottery

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  Laconian cup, 7th century BC
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  Kantharos with sacrificial procession, 600 BC
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  from Cult place at Berbati, 600-575 BC
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  Boetian kylix, 6th century BC
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Black figure pottery

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  From Halieis
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  Laconian black-glazed kylix, 575 BC
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  Boeotian kantharos, 6th century BC

Panathenaic amphora

Mastos Painter, 530-520 BC

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Corinthian pottery

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  Alabastron, Sfinx, 600 BC
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  Amphoriskos, 600-575 BC
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  Aryballos
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  Sphinx, 575 BC
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  550 BC
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  Pyxis, 575-500 BC

Terracotta figurines

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  Warrior, 7th-6th century BC
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  From Cult place at Berbati, 6th century BC
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  From Tiryns
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  7th-6th BC
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  6th century BC
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  Boeotian workshop
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Classical period

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  Bronze mirror, 490-470 BC
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  Detail of the Caryatid

Pottery

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  Black-glazed skyphos, 470-460 BC
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  450-430 BC
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  White ground lekythos
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  Triglyph Painter
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  420-410 BC

Cabeiric pottery

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  Dark Cabeiric skyphos, Odysseus and Kirke
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  Parody scene

Trracota figurines

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Hellenistic and Roman times

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  From Asine
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  From Epidauros
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  Bronze mirror, 3rd-2nd century BC
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  2nd century BC
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  Glassware, 475 BC-100 AD
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  Gold finger ring, 1st-3rd century AD

Pottery

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  Oinochoe
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  Stamnoid pyxis
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  Megarian bowl
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  White lagynos
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Early Byzantine

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  Pyrgouthi, 550-650 AD
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