ATHENS
CANELLOPOULOS MUSEUM The collections
The collections of the museum include:
Clay and stone vases and figurines, jewellery, and weapons of the Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean Civilization (3.000-1.200 B.C.)
Clay vases and figurines from Attica, the Cyclades and Cyprus, dated to the Geometric period (1.000-700 B.C.)
Clay vases, figurines and busts, jewellery, bronze weapons, and vessels from Attica, Corinth, Crete, Boeotia and the Aegean islands, dated to the Archaic period (7th-6th centuries B.C.)
Black-figure and red-figure vases and white lekythoi from Attica and Boeotia (6th-5th centuries B.C.)
Gold jewellery, sealstones and coins from Greek cities (6th century B.C.-4th century A.D.)
Clay statuettes of New Comedy (5th century B.C.), Tanagraias (4th-3rd century B.C.)
Lamps, bronze figurines, vases (4th century B.C.- 3rd century A.D.)
Sculptures and inscriptions of the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman era (5th century B.C.-3rd century A.D.)
Funerary masks from Fayum (2nd-4th century A.D.), Coptic fabrics (6th-12th centuries A.D.)
Gold jewellery, bronze crosses, vases and lamps of the Byzantine period (6th-12th centurie A.D.)
Byzantine coins and leadsealings
Liturgical vessels and wood-carvings of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine period (9th-10th centuries)
Icons of the 14th-19th centuries, many of which bear the subscriptions of their painters, mostly famous artists of the Cretan School, the School of Constantinople, and from Macedonia.
Folk art jewellery, fabrics and elements of the popular garments and weapons, dated to the 18th and 19th centuries.
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