GREECE MACEDONIA EMATHIA VERGINA MUSEUM

Above left: Votive relief stele (late 3rd century BC) from Aigai. - Above centre: Figurine (Demeter?). - Above right: Marble statuette of a queen, most probably Laodike, holding the horn of Amaltheia (180 - 160 BC), from Aigai. - Below: Coffer with relief representation of the head of Ammon-Zeus and Nikai (end of 2nd - beginning of the 3rd centory BC), from Veroia.

Above left: Golden cinerary vessel (325 - 300 BC). It contained the bones of an adolescent and the golden oak wreath. The vessel, placed inside the bronze cauldron, was hidden in the Sanctuary of Eukleia together with two more silver cinerary vases, an urn and an amphora which among others contained a golden olive wreath. - Above right: Frame with terracotta loom weights. - Below: Strigils, tools used especially by athletes for scraping off dirt, perspiration, and oil from the body. (An explanation like this is missing in the museum, so visitors who do not know strigils are left with their imagination.)