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Museums at Halkidiki
Archaeological Museum at Poliyiros
The Poliyiros Museum, which is in Iroou Square in the town centre,
displays representative archaeological finds from all over Halkidiki.
More specifically, they cover a span of time ranging from the Bronze
Age to the Roman period and come from ancient Stageira (near Olympias),
Toroni, Pyrgadikia, Afytos, Poliyiros, Ierissos, and Stratoni, as
also from the ancient city of Olynthos.
The most important exhibits are an unfinished kouros of the Archaic
period, weapons and jewellery of the Late Archaic and Classical
periods, a marble head of Dionysos from ancient Aphytos (4th cent.
bc), a black-figure column crater from Vrasta (late 6th cent. bc),
and two marble grave statues from the heroon at Stratoni (1st cent.
bc). Particularly important are the finds from the city and the
cemetery of Olynthos, of the Archaic and Classical period, because
they give a full picture of the everyday activities and the public
life of that time.
The museum has hosted an exhibition titled É'Three Colonies of Andros
in Chalcidice: Sane, Akanthos, Stageira since 1998. Among many other
things it includes three standing or kneeling statues of Nike from
the roof of a naiskos of the sixth century bc, which was originally
at Sane and was later incorporated into the urban complex of Ouranoupoli.
Thanks to the exhibition, the Poliyiros Museum won the 16th Directorate
of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities Museum of the Year Award
in 1998.
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A Statue of the Herron at Stratoni |
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Clay Members of the Sanctuary of Ammon
Zeus at Afytos |
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