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Archaeological Museum of Rhodes

Last Update: Jul 2012
Museum, Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Monuments RODOS , DODEKANISSOS , GREECE

(Est. 1914)
Megalou Alexandrou Square, Medieval City, 85100 RODOS , DODEKANISSOS , GREECE
Tel.: +30 22410 43488, 25500, 31048 , Fax: +30 22410 30688
Opening hours:
01Nov - 31May Tue-Sun, 0830-1500
01Jun - 31Oct Tue-Sun, 0800-2000
01Jun - 31Oct Mon, 0900-1600
  The Archaeological Museum of Rhodes is housed in the medieval Hospital of the Knights Hospitaller Order of Saint John (1309-1522). Its construction began in 1440 by the Grand Master de Lastic and was completed in 1489 by the Grand Master d' Aubusson.
  The Museum hosts the following collections:
• Burial finds (vases, figurines, jewellery, metal artefacts) from the cemeteries of Ialyssos and Kamiros. Geometric to Classical periods (9th - 4th centuries BC).
• A collection of Classical, Hellenistic and Roman sculpture.
Mosaic floors of the Hellenistic and Early Christian period.
• Funerary slabs from the Knights' period (1309-1522).
  The most important exhibits of the Museum are:
Pyxis of the Fikellura type (550-530 BC.), one of the most distinct groups of the archaic eastern Greek and Ionian ware.
• Two archaic kouroi from Kamiros (550-530 BC).
Kylix of the Vroulia type (6th c. BC). Another distinct group of pottery named after the ancient settlement of Vroulia on Rhodes, where this ware was firstly found.
Laconian hydria, depicting battle between two heroes (6th c. BC).
Grave stele of Krito and Timarista with two standing female figures (420-410 BC).
• Grave stele of Kalliarista. It depicts the dead Kalliarista, seated, while her servant, standing, holds a pyxis with her cosmetics. The stele has a pedimental capping resting on pilasters (ca. 350 BC).
Marble head of Helios (second half of the 2nd century BC).
Marble statuette of the "Aphrodite Bathing" (2nd - 1st century BC).

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Byzantine & Post-Byzantine Monuments

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On site monuments • Building
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Art & culture

Museum • Archaeological Museum
Visiting Information • Fixed hours (Admission fee)
Museum exhibits • Mosaics • Statues • Inscriptions • Reliefs • Pottery (Amphoras)• Stelae (Funerary)• Coins • Sarcophagi • Jewellery • Protomes (Marble)• Grave offerings
Periods of the exhibits • Neolithic period (6500-3200 BC) • Bronze Age (3200-1050 BC) • Ancient historical times (1050 BC- AD 324) • Period of Latin Occupation (1204-16th century)

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