Archaeological Museum of Thera
Introduction Amphora from Thera, c. 700 BC. Archaeological Museum of TheraThe '''Archaeological Museum of Thera''' is a museum in Fira, Santorini, Greece. It was built in 1960 to replace an older one which had collapsed by the 1956 Amorgos earthquake.Its collection houses artifacts that begin from Proto-Cycladic marble figurines of the 3rd millennium BC, and continue on to the Classical period.There are prehistoric vases from Akrotiri dated to the 20th-17th centuries BC.Later artifacts include pottery and amphorae of Geometric and Archaic periods. Many of these objects come from the ancient cemetery of Thera. One of them is a krater with Attic black figures from grave no. 1, with four ships on the internal surface, around the rim.File:Ancient ship 6th c. BC (1).JPGFile:Ancient ship 6th c. BC (2).JPGFile:Ancient ship 6th c. BC (3).JPGFile:Ancient ship 6th c. BC (4).JPG
External links * Archaeological Museum of Thera. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism.