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This room, with six monolithic columns of Serdobol granite,
was destined for one of the museum libraries. The floor is decorated
with a 4th-century mosaic uncovered in a Christian basilica during
excavations of Chersonesus in 1854. The present display is devoted
to the art of Ancient Greece in the High Classical period (5th century
B.C.). Visitors obtain an idea of the work of the great sculptors
of that era - Myron, Polyclitus and Phidias - from copies made in
the Roman period. The room also contains Greek red-figure vases (among
them a stamnos and a krater by Kleophon Painter), grave reliefs and
coins. |
