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  2. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek furniture was typically constructed out of wood, though it might also be made of stone or metal, such as bronze, iron, gold, and silver. Little wood survives from ancient Greece, though varieties mentioned in texts concerning Greece and Rome include maple, oak, beech, yew, and willow. [56]

  3. Caryatid - Wikipedia

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    Caryatid. The Caryatid porch of the Erechtheion in Athens, Greece. These are now replicas. The originals are in the Acropolis Museum (with one in the British Museum). The caryatid taken by Elgin from the Erechtheion, standing in contrapposto, displayed at the British Museum. A caryatid (/ ˌkɛəriˈætɪd, ˌkær -/ KAIR-ee-AT-id, KARR-; [1 ...

  4. Klinē - Wikipedia

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    Klinē. Votive relief showing a funerary banquet, 5th century BC. The dead man is shown as a heroized man lying on a klinē. On display in Room 19–20 of the National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Klinai (Greek; sg.: klinē), [1] known in Latin as lectus triclinaris, [2] were a type of ancient furniture used by the ancient Greeks in their ...

  5. Ancient Greek crafts - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek crafts (or the craftsmanship in Ancient Greece) was an important but largely undervalued, economic activity. It involved all activities of manufacturing transformation of raw materials, agricultural or not, both in the framework of the oikos and in workshops of size that gathered several tens of workers.

  6. Klismos - Wikipedia

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    The klismos was a specifically Greek invention, without detectable earlier inspiration. [9] The klismos fell from general favour during the Hellenistic period; nevertheless, the theatre of Dionysus at the foot of the Acropolis, Athens, of the first century CE, has carved representations of klismoi. [10] Where a klismos is represented in Roman ...

  7. Ancient Agora of Athens - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Agora of Athens (also called the Classical Agora) is the best-known example of an ancient Greek agora, located to the northwest of the Acropolis and bounded on the south by the hill of the Areopagus and on the west by the hill known as the Agoraios Kolonos, also called Market Hill. [1] The Agora's initial use was for a commercial ...

  8. National Archaeological Museum, Athens - Wikipedia

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    The Museum in 1893. The first national archaeological museum in Greece was established by the governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias in Aigina in 1829. Subsequently, the archaeological collection was relocated to a number of exhibition places until 1858, when an international architectural competition was announced for the location and the architectural design of the new museum.

  9. Athens City Museum - Wikipedia

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    Athens City Museum (Vouros-Eutaxias Foundation) is an art museum and former royal residence in Athens, Greece. It houses a collection of Athens-related items collected by art collector Lambros Eutaxias [Wikidata] (1905-1996). [1] The collection includes antiquities, Byzantine art, sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and metal, glass ...

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