NEWCOMERS is an informal group for women from around the world that offers a support system to new arrivals in northern and central Athens. Newcomers activities will help you explore your new world and make new friends along the way.
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Benaki Museum Tour
Marble bust of Antonis Benakis founder of the museum by Konstantinos Dimitriadis
Votive bust of a goddess with a high polos
Terracotta figurine of a himation clad male
Attic black figure lekythos with depiction of a satyr. 500 BC
Part of a female figurine with peplos, polos and elaborate jewellery. 550 BC
Mycenaean necklaces with beads of semi-precious stones, glass paste and faience. 16th-13th c BC
Male funeral portrait painted on linen. 3rd c AD
Marble votive relief of Asklepios, God of medicine. 3rd c BC
Poros grave marker for Parthena. 4th c BC
Marble group of hands, fragment of a farewell scene from a grave relief. 4th c BC
Marble grave relief. 3rd c AD
Bronze figurine of Hercules. 480 BC
Terracotta bust of Dionysos holding an egg and a wine jug. 380 BC
Attic red figure kylix. 460 BC
St Anne and the Virgin. 15th c icon by Cretan painter Angelos Akotantos
The vigin of Tenderness. Icon by Emmanuel Lambardos. 17th c
Adoration of the Magi, Icon. 16th c Ioannis Permeniatis (Venice)
17th c embroidery. Cyclades
Detail of The Last Judgment. Abraham, 1794
Greek bourgeois lady from Constantinople. 18th c
Lead water bottle. 1761
Portrait of Queen Olga
King Otto by Joseph Karl Stieler
Michele and Amy
Tammy and Gwyneth
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Claudia and Nikki
Tammy and Gwyneth in the entrance hall
Newcomers on the steps of the Benaki Museum