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Museums at Halkidiki
Archaeological Museum at Olynthos
The museum opened in July 1998 in a building on the archaeological
site of ancient Olynthos, 5 km from Moudania, Halkidiki.
The excavational finds are in the Poliyiros Archaeological Museum.
The Olynthos Museum has only audio-visual material, the purpose
of which is to give visitors a complete picture of the archaeological
site of Olynthos, starting with the history of the city and moving
on to a description of the excavation and the restoration.
Visitors learn that the city was built to a Hippodamean plan (two
wide avenues with insulae containing ten (square) houses, and
a sewage pipe every five houses). An Olynthian house took the
form of a pastas (a square, two-storey dwelling with rooms giving
onto a covered inner courtyard) and was built of river stones
and clay, with the superstructure being of unbaked bricks reinforced
with a timber framework. In most of the houses, the floor was
of compacted earth, but four have mosaic floors made with river
pebbles and mortar.
Photographs and brief texts describe the domestic organisation
(preparation of food, storage of foodstuffs, weaving) and the
economic life of the city (stonework, koroplastics, agricultural
activities, recreation, symposia).
Visitors also learn about the course of the excavations, from
RobinsonÉ's work in 1928 to the excavations of 1990 and 1992.
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