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This room is situated in the building of the New Hermitage
constructed to the design of Leo von Klenze for the Imperial Museum
in 1851. According to the original project this room was intended
for a museum library. The walls and the pylons are decorated with
stucco in stripes of three alternating colours. The groin vault, the
lunettes and the arches are painted with size colours. The objects,
displayed in the room, constitute the world's richest collection of
the relics unearthed during the excavations of Greek colonies of the
7th-4th centuries BC founded on the Black Sea coast. The collection
includes artistically made unique sarcophagi, examples of original
Greek sculpture, articles of silver and glass. Of particular notice
are the hydria decorated with the subject The Contest of Athena with
Poseidon, the vessels produced by the master Xenophantus (Athens,
4th century BC) as well as the figured vases made by Greek craftsmen
in the late 5th century which were extracted from a female burial
in a Phanagorian necropolis. |
