The Archaeological Museum of Thasos is a museum located in Limenas on the island of Thasos, Kavala prefecture, East Macedonia, Greece. It occupies a house that was built in 1934 and recently extended. Storerooms and workshops have already been organised, and before the end of 2000 four rooms will be open: the shop, the official functions room, the old wing, and the prehistoric collection. The exhibits consist in collections of sculpture, pottery, and architectural remains from the Neolithic to the Roman period on Thasos. The most important exhibits from the early period are a clay amphora from the Neolithic settlement and a Cycladic plate decorated with a representation of the hero Bellerophon on the winged Pegasus spearing the three-headed Chimaera. Two of the sculptures of the Archaic period are outstanding: an impressive three-and-a-half-metre kouros, a statue of a young naked man carrying a goat, which was found at Pythion; and a bust of Pegasus. Of the exhibits from the Classical period, particularly noteworthy are a head of Dionysos of the 4th cent. BC, which belonged to the larger-than-life-size statue of the god that graced the large exedra of one of the two choregic monuments in the Temple of Dionysos, and a statue of Comedy.rdrd Wikipedia [ - ]

The Archaeological Museum of Thasos is a museum located in Limenas on the island of Thasos,... [ + ]