GREECE MACEDONIA EMATHIA VERGINA MUSEUM

Above right and below left: Iron nails used to fasten wooden beams and roof tiles in Philip's palace. The assemblage can also be seen as a work of modern art. - The rest: details unknown.

Sure, the Polycentric Museum has a tremendous lot of artifacts - sherds, figurines, oil lamps, nails, miniature vessels, ... But what do we learn from this? Not much.

Above: Wheelmade pithos-amphora with the characteristic protogeometric decoration, mainly of concentric circles. - Below left: Krater for mixing wine and water (10th century BC). - Below right: Black-figure column krater, kylikes with band decoration and other vases (600 - 550 BC).