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Rhodos Island Archeological Museum
Introduction

The Archaeological Museum of Rhodos is housed in the Medieval Building of the Hospital of Knights.

It's a two floors building ,with an internal Yard ,all four sides of which are lined with porticoes.
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In its six rooms and the Garden are exhibited interesting finds ,dating from all Periods of the islands History. Objects which have come on during archaeological excavations .

The Most important of the exhibits are ,the stele of Crito &Timarista 5th century BC ,The head of young athlete 4th century BC ,The funerary stele of a dead warrior 2nd century, The Beautiful statue of Aphrodite bathing 1st century, The marble Head of Ilios 250-160 BC ,Headless status of Nymphs ,terracotta statuettes ,a large Rhodian oinochoe of the 7th century BC.

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In the garden the visitor can see sculptures and funerary steles of the Greek period .The Museum atrium contains also various statues and fragments of funerary monuments. A floor mosaic from Arkasa on Karpathos has been laid in the recess on the south side of the atrium and at the back of the recess stands a reconstruction of a tombstone in the from of a small temple, housing a trophy.

 
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