GREECE MACEDONIA EMATHIA VERGINA TUMULUS

For me this is the highlight of the museum: the very vividly executed wallpainting "Hades abducting Persephone". It shows the god of the underworld carrying off a resisting Persephone in his chariot with Hermes, the guide of souls, leading the way. Also depicted is a scared nymph witnessing the horrifying event, and on another wall of the tomb and less well preserved, is the sitting Demeter, Persephone's mother, and a judge of the underworld. - The exquisite murals, attributed to the well-known Classical painter Nikomachos from Eretria, adorned the walls of tomb I, dating from the third quarter of the 4th century, perhaps the resting-place of Nikissipoli, a former wife of Philip II.