Ok, one more kind of geeky post, which I promised not to do the last time I went on and on about stuff in a museum (the one on Santorini).  So, this is just a post about a lot of old broken pottery and statues, and corroded metal.  Skip this, if you only like shiny new things.

The museum is a little ways down the hill from the temple complex.  Nice facility, though infested with dangerous animals...


Inside, here's a clay figure from the Mycenean era (I found my notes!).


And a bit of blue, aged bronze, probably also about 2700 years old...


Figures of gryphons, 8th-7th century, BCE and a small horse...





Helmets from the 7th C BCE...they don't look all that comfortable.



A large sphinx...

And then a series of friezes, horses from the south side of the temple...




and images from the Olympian gods battling the giants from the north (notice that expression of surprise)...



Two larger statues, in an older style, with the stiff expressions (Lee needs to tell us about all this change in sculpture)...


A ceramic plate, I believe telling part of the story of Apollo, being told by the raven about a lover betraying him...


Here, just to note that most of what the archaeologists work with are fragments like this.  But notice, still bits of color...


Again, look at the traces of color, the blue eyes of this lion...



Dogs who still look friendly and eager...







Nearby, some ferocious critter...



And equally scary, those classic abs that seem impossible to replicate, no matter how many crunches I do...


A battle against some serpent, with a centaur on the far left...





and then back outside, looking down the mountain...




later, bob