Archaeological Museum of Paros

{{short description|Archaeological Museum in Parikia, Paros. Greece}}

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The Archaeological Museum of Paros is a museum located in Parikia on Paros, Greece.{{cite web | url =http://www.parosweb.com/archaeological-museum/ |title = Archaeological Museum of Paros|date=26 September 2020 }} The museum was founded in 1960 and consists of two rooms and an atrium.{{cite web|title=Ministry of Culture and Sports {{!}} Archaeological Museum of Paros|url=http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3303|access-date=2021-12-06|website=odysseus.culture.gr}}

Museum plan

Room A contains Archaic and Classical sculptures. Room B contains pottery, sculptures, and small finds from the Neolithic to the Roman period. The atrium contains sculptures, architectural parts, urns, and a Roman period mosaic floor.

File:Plan Archaeological Museum of Paros-en.svg

Notable exhibits

Parian Marble (The shorter fragment base of the Stele).
Cycladian Frying Pan
Gorgon of Paros Marble statue, 6th century BCE.
Fat (or Naked) Lady of Saliagos. The oldest known Cycladic figurine.
The Nike of Paros. An early classical depiction of Nike in marble.
Large amphora, 7th c BC (B2652)

File:Parian Chronicle, part and copy of second part, 3rd c BC, AM Paros, A 26, 143954.jpg|alt==The Parian Chronicle (Marmor Parium), 3rd century BC. One of the three parts of the stele on which the Parian Chronicle was inscribed, original, left. Right is copy of second part (original is in Oxford Ashmolean Museum). Archaeological Museum of Paros, A 26.|Parian Marble

File:Frying Pan in AM Paros, 143866.jpg|Cycladian Frying Pan

File:Gorgon statue 550 BC AM Paros A1284, 144023.jpg|Gorgon of Paros

File:PAM Pomos 2857.jpg|Fat (or Naked) Lady of Saliagos

File:Nike, Paros3.JPG|Nike of Paros

File:Large amphora, Melian style, Paros, 7th c BC, AM Paros A 2652 (1).jpg|Large amphora, 7th c BC (B2652)

References

External links

[http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3303 Ministry of Culture and Sports, Odesseys, Archaeological Museum of Paros]
[http://www.parosweb.com/archaeological-museum/ Parosweb Archaeological Museum of Paros]

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Category:Paros

Paros