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Altes Museum. The Greek Collection

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Berlin Altes Museum

Altes Museum (Old Museum) is one of numerous buildings on the Museum Insel (Museum Isle) in Berlin (Germany). Originally it was created for all of Berlin’s art collections. Since 1904 it is housing the Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities), including an extensive Greek collection. The classical artifacts had been collected for more than 350 years.

Since 2011, its lower floor offers an impressive panorama of Greek art from the 9th to the 1st century BC. It is numerous sculptures of the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods, vases, funerary and votive reliefs, architectural fragments, and other artifacts.

Below my photo impressions made May last year in the Ancient Greek Collection. Enjoy.

Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
Berlin Altes Museum Greek Collection
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Altes Museum. The Greek Collection

Seen at Altes Museum. A Greek sarcophagus cover frame

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Berlin Altes Museum, a Greek sarcophagus cover frame

a Greek sarcophagus cover frame

When visiting interesting places, we often have too little time to stop and think about what we see or even read a plate with a description of the items we are looking at. Just for pleasure I have a habit of going through numerous photos I take when traveling and quietly studying them. This time is the ancient museums in Berlin, which I managed to quickly visit when on a business trip to Berlin last year. I had not enough time to just stop and contemplate the artifacts. But today, you can ask Google for ‘a similar photo’ and it will tell you what you see on it and often even specify exactly where you saw it.

This beautiful ancient Greek artifact is a cover frame of a sarcophagus. It is made of clay. It was either left white or it was decoratively painted, as you can see in the photo. When archaeologists were working on excavations and then wanted to take the artifacts to other countries, they only took the frames leaving sarcophagus basins on site.

The sarcophagus cover frame on the photo above you can find in the Old Museum in Berlin.

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Seen at Altes Museum. Medea sarcophagus

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Medea Sarcophagus Berlin Altes Museum

A relief on a Roman sarcophagus made in the 2nd century AD telling the story of Medea by the Greek poet Euripides. Medea was a mythical sorceress who murdered her own children to take revenge on her husband, Jason. You can see the Medea sarcophagus in Altes Museum in Berlin in the ancient Rome section. Just a pick from photographs I made last May in Berlin.

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Seen at Altes Museum. Medea sarcophagus