Hosted by OSOS , contributed by mersidala on 9 July 2020
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We walk in
We walked in the city of Thebes.
We saw the Archaeological Museum, the Kadmeia, the 'Darkeio' library, the statue of Epameinondas, the bust of the Pindar and other places.
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The Archaeological Area of the Mycenaean Palace of Thebes ‘Kadmeio’ was decorated with frescoes and clay tablets in Linear B and amphorae .
The Archaeological Museum of Thebes is one of the most important museums of Greece since some of its collections are rare or unique. The exhibits originate from excavations all around Boeotia and cover a long chronological period spanning from the Palaeolithic to the Post Byzantine periods.
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Kadmeio
At the centre of the acropolis of Kadmeia, in the heart of the modern city, there are the ruins of a building that, for its time, was magnificent. It is known as the Kadmeio, a large independent construction with many rooms and corridors designed for work and storage. These housed some of the most important workshops in the city’s Mycenaean palace, producing miniatures and items and jewellery from lapis lazuli, agate, quartz and gold, materials that came from as close as Thebes to as far away as Afghanistan. The same building housed a variety of other items, including large stirrup jars, which came to Thebes from Crete, full of oil
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Todays’ Archaeological Museum of Thebes is the third building on this particular site to host antiquities. Its history began in 1894, when the old barracks beside the medieval tower were made available to house antiquities, mainly the sculptures and inscriptions that had been collected from all over Boeotia.
In 1905, funded by the Archaeological Society at Athens, the barracks were converted into the town’s first archaeological museum, a plain, two-storey stone building of limited size. The exhibition of antiquities was organized by the archaeologist Antonios D. Keramopoullos. He, in cooperation with the British couple, archaeologists P. and A. Ure – who had recently excavated a section of the cemetery of ancient Mycalissos (today’s Ritsona) – created a museum that was pioneering for its time, presenting finds from graves in groups and not according to their artistic value, as had been the practice until then. Many emblematic figures of Greek archaeology served in that first museum, such as Nikolaos Papadakis, Christos Karouzos, Ioannis Threpsiadis and Nikolaos Platon. In 1934, Christos Karouzos wrote the first archaeological guidebook to the museum, and contributed to concealing and safeguarding its antiquities in World War II (1940-1944).
After the war ended, it was realized that the old building was no longer adequate; it was demolished much later and in its place, a single-storey building was constructed with an entrance porch. Ioannis Threpsiadis undertook the task of exhibiting the antiquities in this new museum, which was inaugurated on 9 December 1962, a few months after his death. Full renovation followed, as the new museum had just a few, but very large lighted spaces. Its limited area was offset by some unique findings in its collections, such as the cylinder seals of eastern origin and the amphorae with inscriptions in Linear B script from the Mycenaean palace of Thebes, larnakes (sarcophagoi) from the Mycenaean cemetery at Tanagra and the “black” incised stelae of warriors from the classical period.
This second building, with minor periodical rearrangements of its exhibition, continued in operation for some 45 years, until 2007, when it was incorporated into the present – third in the sequence – Archaeological Museum of Thebes.
