Exhibits - Open days/hours
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Clay sarcophagus. It was found in a rock-cut, horseshoe-shaped tomb in the area of Episkope at Ierapetra and dates to 1450-1400 B.C. It is cist-shaped, with a saddled lid, crowned with a bull-head and a human figurine. The painted decoration covers all the sides of the sarcophagus and includes scenes of outdoors everyday life, placed in frames. |
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Honorary inscription. It was erected to commemorate the honouring by the city of Ierapytna of Titus Claudius Aristagoras who was proclaimed protector of the interests of the Demos (People) because he repaired the building of the Public Archives at his own expense. |
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Marble statue of a standing female figure who steps on a plinth (h. 1.57 m.). It is dated to the Roman period and comes from a seizure of antiquities. She wears a long chiton and a himation which also covers the head. She holds an ear of wheat in one hand while the other is bent. On the head she bears a diadem decorated with two snakes. |
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Red-figure amphora from Manoliana of Ierapetra, dated to the 4th century B.C. It is preserved in very good condition. The shoulder is decorated with palmettes, while both sides of the body bear interesting representations in red paint: on the first, the preparation of a warrior, assisted by a woman, and attended by an older man, possibly a teacher; on the other, two male figures walking towards a third man.
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Marble statuette from Viglia (h. 0.58 m.). It represents a male (probably) figure standing on a podium. The figure is dressed in long chiton and mantle, and only two of the curls of the hair are preserved. The man holds a lyre in the left hand, a feature probably leading to the identification with god Apollo represented as kitharodos, in the type of Mousagetes (leader of the Muses). Dated to the Roman period. |
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Open hours : Closed on Monday / Thursday - Sunday 8:30-15:00
Ticket: 2 euro / short ticket 1 euro: for students from countries outside Ε.Ε, nationals of E.E. above 65
Free: for people under 18, students of Ε.Ε., students of classial studies from countries outside Ε.Ε. members of ICOM-ICOMOS, tourist guides, journalists
Free entrance days for everyone: Sundays form 1/11 until 31/3, every months first Sunday (except July, August, September), national days / 6/3 in the memory of Melina Merkuri/ 18/4 National Tomb Day / 18/5 National Museum Day / 5/6 National Enviroment Day / September's last weekend - European Inheritance Days
phone 28420-28721
For these page we gathered information and photographic material from the Civilization Department webpage