| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Pair of paintings of military figures, 7th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Coptic textiles from 5th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Fragment of a tapestry made from linen and wool with Christian symbol, 6th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Part of a late 10th century Christian mosaic with the Virgin from the Studios Monastery in Istanbul.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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12th century plate with bird and spirals.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Decorated glazed bowl, 13th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The museum has a large collection of Byzantine icons.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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St George Killing the Dragon, 15th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Silver icon from Constantinople showing the Annunciation, 12th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Replica of the 9th century Virgin and Child mosaic from Agia Sophia in Constantinople (Istanbul).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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14th century icon depicting the Hospitality of Abraham from Constantinople.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Stone relief from a church in Anatolia depicting the saints Theofore and George, 13th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The Virgin of Tenderness, an icon from 14th century Constantinople.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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St George on horseback, a relief icon from Thrace (15th century).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Icon depicting the descent into hell, 15th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Icon depicting the Transfiguration, a 15th century forgery.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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15th century icon depicting St Anne and the Virgin.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Icon of St George killing the dragon from the 14th century before the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Virgin and child with St Nicholas and St George, early 15th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The Dormion of the Virgin, 15th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The Martydom of St Demetrius, by Cretian painter, Georgios Kortezas, 17th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The Nativity, early 17th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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St George Kephalophoros holding his severed head, late 16th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The Annunciation, early 17th century, Crete.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The Raising of Lazarus (mid 16th century) by Theophanis Strelitzas Bathas, a Cretian painter who worked on the monasteries of Meteora.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The Dormion of St Savvas, early 17th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Early 17th century icon depicting the Nativity and influenced by Italian art.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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The museum has a folk section.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Embroidery is of a high quality in Greece.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Pendants in the shape of caravels made from enamel and pearls.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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White embroidered sheet with trees and birds, the Cyclades.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Necklace of Venetian and Austrian coins, 19th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Carved wooden crib.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Bridal sheets from Cyprus, late 17th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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18th century Epirote jewelry.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Gilt belt buckle with flowers.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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18th century gold embroidery on red silk.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Silver bowl dated 1763.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Gilt amulets from the 19th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Large silver belt buckle.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Inlaid furniture.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Dish with St Demetrios killing a soldier, 1852.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Standing censer with dragon feet, 19th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Inscribed holy water basin, 1722.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Ciborium (container used for Christian rituals) in the shape of a church.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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19th century standing censer.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Dish from 1793.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Chalice decorated with angels (1805).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Mitre from the Pontic archbishop of Amida (modern Diyabakir in Turkey) dated 1739.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Five branched candelabrum from 1811.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Highly decorated Bible cover, 1710.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Chalices from the 1750s.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Reliquary depicting a palace by the Bosphorus.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Reliquary for the skull of St George Chlopolites from 1816.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Large ciborium in the shape of a hexagonal church from 19th century Asia Minor.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Ceramic censers and rosewater sprinkler, 18th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Ciborium shaped like a Byzantine church (1613).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Bible cover depicting the Ressurection (1687).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Processional cross.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Velvet cover of a Bible, 17th century.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Silver dish with depictions of the Twelve Apostles, from Transylvania.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Cover of a Bible with the Crucifiction (1548).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Icon of St George made of gold thread set in a frame inlaid with mother of pearl (1729).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Kitchenware.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Detail from 1728 Bible cover.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Lyres from Crete.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Dish with a depiction of the prophet, Elijah (1668).
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Pistols owned by English poet Lord Byron, who fought in the war of Greek independence.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Portrait of Lord Byron by an unknown painter.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Flag of Greek independence with the slogan Unity or Death.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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1843 bound copy of the Greek national anthem by Dionysios Solomos.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Little Girl by Nicholas Gyzis.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Boats by Constantine Volanakis.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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"The Quarantine Station at Lefkada" (1820) by Joseph Cartwright.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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"The Fugitives of Parga" (1819) by Carlo Belgiojoso.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
Site / Event : Benaki Museum
|
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Portrait of Antonis Benakis (1873 -1954) by Chronis Botsoglou.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
|
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The Parthenon lit on the Acropolis at night.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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The Acropolis dominates the city.
|
1981 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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The foot of the Acropolis.
|
1974 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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The foundations.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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The Temple of Athena.
|
1981 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Erechtheion
|
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The Erechtheion is the most sacred part of the Acropolis.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Erechtheion
|
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This portion of the temple is dedicated to Posidon.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Erechtheion
|
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Ionic column from the Posidon shrine.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Erechtheion
|
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Base of a column.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Erechtheion
|
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This part of the temple is dedicated to Athena. The six Caryatids are copies. Five of the originals are in the Acropolis Museum while the other is in London.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Erechtheion
|
 |
The original Caryatids date from 406 BCE.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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Marble columns and stonework.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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Stone slabs on the Acropolis.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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View of the nearby Plaka and the distant modern city.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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The Parthenon is dedicated to Athena and dates from 438 BCE.
|
1977 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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Inside the Parthenon in 1974.
|
1974 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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The Parthenon is the largest Doric temple in Greece.
|
1981 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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The Parthenon being rebuilt in 2014.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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The end of the Parthenon with its friezes.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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Many of the friezes were taken abroad while the rest are in the museum.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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Some of the seventeen fluted marble Doric columns.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
Site / Event : Parthenon
|
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Top of Doric columns.
|
2014 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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The Propylaia (432 BCE) is the gateway to the Acropolis.
|
1974 |
| Greece |
City / Town : Athens
District : Acropolis
|
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Stone relief at the old Acropolis Museum in 1981.
|
1981 |
were added from 1 February 2025.