Cyrene Antiquity Museum
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متحف المنحوتات في شحات | |
 The three graces in Cyrene Antiquity Museum | |
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| Location | Shahhat , Libya |
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| Coordinates | 32°49′3.500″N 21°51′51.001″E / 32.81763889°N 21.86416694°E |
| Type | Archaeological museum |
| Collection size | Archaic Greece and Roman era artifacts |
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Cyrene Antiquity Museum is an archaeological museum located in Shahhat, Libya. It contains several statues and mosaics from the ancient Greek and later Roman city Cyrene.[1]
According to a multi level research, four out of 200 statues at Cyrene Antiquity museum have previously been identified as dolomitic marble from the northern Aegean island of Thasos.[2]
List of statues[edit]
- Head of Athena
- Kore[3]
- Statues of Thalia (Grace)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Cyrene Sculpture Museum". temehu.com. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
- ^ Poljak, Daniela (2015). Thasian Connections Overseas: Sculpture in the Cyrene Museum (Libya) Made of Dolomitic Marble from Thasos. p. 457. ISBN 978-953-6617-49-4.
- ^ Kane, Susan, and Joyce Reynolds. “‘The Kore Who Looks after the Grain’: A Copy of the Torlonia-Hierapytna Type in Cyrene.” American Journal of Archaeology 89, no. 3 (1985): 455–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/504360.
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