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The Archaeological Museum of Sitia opened its doors to the public in 1984, one hundred years after the first official excavations in the area by the Italian School of Archaeology. The largest and richest complex is considered to be that of the palace of Kato Zakros with numerous and important finds, some of which are masterpieces of Minoan art. The most famous object of the Museum is considered to be the ivory statuette from the Minoan city of Palaikastro. The museum is a complete museum complex, which has storage and laboratory spaces, offices for the scientific, administrative and custodial staff and a small archaeological library. The tour begins in the vestibule, in the center of which is exhibited the famous chryselephantine statuette from the Minoan city of Palaikastro. In the second section, the finds from the palace of Kato Zakros and its area are exhibited: giant jars, a number of decorated vases and utensils, a pithos with colored decoration, elegant micro-crafts. Display case 16 includes a wonderful set of Linear A tablets from the palace archive.
In the third section, finds are presented that come mainly from burial ensembles of geometric and archaic Sitia. In display case 22 one can see relief tiles and figurines from the depositor of an archaic sanctuary found in the city of Sitia. Impressive are the collections of Hellenistic and Greco-Roman finds in the fourth section from Xirokampos, Ziros, Tripitos, the mansion of Makris Gialos, Koufonisi, etc.
Editor: Niki Kalopaidis
