Flask decorated with a large octopus and supplementary motifs: sea urchins, seaweed and rocks, an outstanding example of the mature marine style. Late Neopalatial period (1450 BC)
The item was initially covered with gold leaves, traces of which have been preserved. The entire surface is decorated with a low relief scene of an open-air peak sanctuary crowed with horns of consecration, in a superb landscape composition with a mountainous landscape in which wild goats are sitting on the top shrine or leaping about among the rocks and birds are flying in the sky. Late Neopalatial Period (1450 BC)- Heraklion Museum.
Gold ring with a gemstone of lapis lazuli on which the image of a laurel - crowned head is carved, perhaps Dionysus. Lyttos, Roman period (3rd century A.D). Heraklion Archaeological museum.
Two statues from the temple of the Egyptian Gods at Gortyn that combine iconographic elements and symbols of Hellenic and Egyptian deities. alike. The Isis - Persephone figure is holding a sistrum and wearing a moon disk, the symbol of Isis, on her head. Zeus - Sarapis, with a modio on his head, represents Pluto with Cerberus beside him, the three - headed dog that guards the Underworld. Roman Period rnd century A.D. - Heraklion Museum
Bronze grave statue of a young man wrapped in a mantle. Sorrow at his untimely death is imprinted on the boyish face. A high quality work from the Late Hellenistic period. Ierapetra, 1st century B.C. Heraklion Archaeological Museum.
Silver coin from Gortyn with a female figure in a tree on one side and a bull on the other, images that allude to the myth of the abduction of Europa by Zeus as a bull. (Heraklion Museum)
Finial - handle of sceptre of green slate in the shape of a panther and axe. Believed to symbolise the secular power and religious authority of the king. From the Palace at Malia, Palaeopalatial period (1800 - 1700 B.C.) - Heraklion Museum