GREECE PELOPONNESE MESSINIA CHORA MUSEUM

The museum of Chora, erected in 1969, illustrates nearly exclusively the Mycenaean period (ca. 1600 - 1100 BC). The exhibited objects come from the "Palace of Nestor" in Ano Englianos and from various tombs and cemeteries in Messinia. The collection is remarkable, but the labeling of the objects is quite limited.

Above left: At the entrance of the museum is a bust of the American archaeologist Carl W. Blegen (1887-1971), renowned for his many important contributions to Bronze Age archaeology on the Peloponnese, but especially for the excavation of nearby "Nestor's Palace". - Above right and below right: Plaster casts of Linear B clay tablets from the Palace of Nestor, dated to the 13th century BC. The originals are exhibited in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. - Below left: Bronze finds from Mycenaean chamber tomb No. 3 in Chora Volimidia.

Above left: Three-handled "Palace style" pithoid jar from the Vagenas Mycenaean tholos tomb. - Above center, right and below left: Huge pithos from Peristeria.