The Museum was built by and belonged to, until the 1950s, by the Othrys, Filarchaeos Etaireia Almyrou, a non-profit local organization found in the beginning of 20th century.
The three rooms of the museum are exhibited objects from the archaeological excavations from various cultural periods and certify human activity and evolution from the Neolithic years, early historical, archaic ,classical and Hellenistic. Among the most important exhibits are the findings dating back to the 9th and 8th centuries BC and come from burial mounds of the Voulokaliva
The figurines of snakes in the ancient Greek world were popular votive offerings in public sanctuaries and domestic shrines of chthonic and fertile deities and symbols of spiritual communication between human and gods.Two metallic snakes are on display at the museum of Almyros.They were discovered in a house in the Hellenistic city of Alos. Area where the practice of the burning of dead mainly warrior was Dominated. Moreover the sculptural samples from the temple of Asclepius in the city of
Fthiotides Thebes 4th century BC and related to Asclepius and his family are significant and the findings from the excavations in the houses and cemetaries of the Hellenistic years of the city of Alo express the way of life, the customs and the customs of the people who lived there.
The figurines are a pair of serpent shaped pieces of metal and iron in creeping form and a silver one in the form of three concentric spirals.They came to light in the House of Snakes and specifically in a room in which the rectangular hearth of the house that was made from volcanic stone was revealead.
These metal objects came to light inside a vessel of volcanic stone with soil a part of a sheep’s lower jaw and a shell.This vessel was placed in a pit that was dug for this purpose on the earthern floor of the room and near the hearth.
FUNERARY STELE FROM ANCIENT ALOS.
The funerary stelae are important burial monuments of antiquity which provide histirical data for the time they were created,the political,social and economic life of the inhabitants,their ideology and beliefs. We also draw information about their technology,the craftsmen who sculpted and painted them the stonemasons and the painters.
This stele was found in1990 during the excavation of the cemetery of ancient Halos in second use.It is madeof white marble which has a reddish tinge due to its contact with the limestone soils At the excavation site where it was discovered.It has an oblique fracture in its lower part on both sides.The front side is well worked while the back is raw.The trunk of the stele is flat
Without framing and ends at the top on a protruding concave surface which is returned by a free pediment with flowery capes of which only two survive intact. At the top of its front side it has two embossed navel rosettes.Between the rosettes and the crown there is the inscription. This is the name and patronymic of the deceased. The stele was propably painted a fact reinforced by the traces of cyan that appear on its front surface but also on a strip under the crown.It is possible that the representation depicted an upright and a sitting figure.
CERAMIC LID OF A PITHOS FROM ORANGE RED CLAY WITH THE INSCRIPTION AGATHONOS.
The lid was found in a house in the urban web of the city of Halos on the site of Kefalosi in Almyros in the same block with the other two houses. The excavation of the room at the western end of the house in addition to the pithos and its lid brought to light several ceramic and other finds. The inscription on the pithos’lid is important because it gives us information about the name of either the owner of the house or the potter who made the specific pot.
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