Archeological Museum ...
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The
Archaeological Museum of Poros is located
at the Korizi square. It was created thanks
to a pioneer devotee of archaeology,
who carried out by himself the hard work
of preserving the ancient findings of Trizinia,
Christos Fourniades. Fourniades started
to collect, by his own initiative, the
scattered ancient findings of the area
and gather them at the Municipal Office
of Poros.
In 1958 Fourniades, supported by the
Municipal
Council of Poros, had already proceeded
with the foundation of an Archaeological
Collection on the island.
The
“Museum of Poros” was lodged temporarily
at the old house of Korizi, which was donated
in 1962 by the inheritors of Alexandros Korizis
to the Greek State and was demolished in
order for the Museum to be built.
The Collection of Poros is officially recorded
for the first time in 1959.
The
Museum of Poros, built during 1966-1968
on the ruins of demolished residence of Korizi,
for ten whole years was a shut store
house. A first exhibition of the antiquities,
limited at the ground floor, was conducted
in 1978. Because
of the abundance of the findings revealed
at the excavations during the last twenty
years, the necessity for a new exhibition
layout on the ground floor and its expansion
to the upper floor came out, works that were
acted out in 1998 and gave the Museum of
Poros the shape it has today.
The
exhibition of the museum covers two rooms,
one on the basement and one on the building's
floor and includes exhibits from all over
the territory o Trizinia and some of the area
of Ermioni.
The
museum has sculptures, inscriptions and architectural
parts from Trizina, Kalavreia and Methana.
The most important exhibits are a big anaglyph
with a dog's representation on, which was
built-in on an ancient construction, a plaster
cast of the known inscribed column from Trizina
with the script of the Athenean voting, suggested
by Themistocles in 480 BC, regarding the
encounter of the Persian invasion, an archaic
inscription (around 600 BC) from a funeral
mark found in Methana, an honourable voting
of Trizina (369 BC) and the inscribed pedestal
from a copper statue of the emperor of Rome
Marcus Aurelius, offering by the town of
Methana (175 – 180 AD).
Two
statuettes, a nude boy and a woman with pallium
and cloth, a statuette of Asklipios from Kalavreia,
and a few tomb steles of the 4th century
BC., from the cemetery areas of the ancient
town (such as a remarkable tomb anaglyph with
a woman's presentation in hyperphysical size),
are some of the most important exhibitions
of the classic period.
As
far as the imperial period is regarded, during
which a series of imposing tomb monuments
were made round the town walls, tomb steles
of Trizina are exposed such as the tomb stele
of Xenokratis orator from Kalavreia (3rd cent.
BC).
Furthermore,
also exhibited at the museum is a series of
capitals of the three main architectonic rhythms
from the archaic to the Romaic years: one
Doric of the 6th cent. BC, another Doric as
well, of the 5th cent. BC. and an angular
ionic of the 4th cent. BC that is completed
with two examples of Corinthian capitals of
the Romaic period, one from Methana and the
other from Trizina. The second one is decorated
on its main sides with anaglyph visards, testifying
that it comes from a theatrical construction.
Finally,
samples of old-Christian architecture, such
as capitals of that period from the wider
area of Trizina, constitute important part
of the exhibition.
Address:
Korizi square, P.C. 18020, Poros (Prefecture
of Attica)
Phone
Number: +30
22980 23276
