Archaeological
Museum of Ierapetra The museum was founded at the end of the 19th century,
during the Turkish occupation of Crete and was housed in several buildings
in the past. Today it is housed in the building of the Commercial Ottoman
School, which is protected by a preservation
order,
and has been ceded to the Ministry of Culture by the Municipality of Hierapetra.
The
collections include:
Minoan
art: painted sarcophagi, lamps, Late Minoan III (1400-1200 B.C.) vases,
mostly stirrup jars and kraters.
Geometric
figurines and vases (9th-8th century B.C.)
Archaic
art (mostly figurines and relief plaques) of the late 7th-6th centuries
B.C.
Classical
and Hellenistic vases and figurines (end of 1st century B.C. - 4th century
A.D.)
Roman
reliefs and statues
Funerary
and votive inscriptions of Greek and Roman times
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