Ancient artifacts recovered around the Mediterranean at the Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology in Marseille, France
Ancient artifacts recovered around the Mediterranean at the Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology in Marseille, France. Museum of Mediterranean Archaeology in Marseille houses the most important ensemble of Egyptian art in France after the Louvre. Their Egyptian collections offer a thematic presentation of daily life, cults and funerary rites from prehistory to the second century CE. The classical collections offer a geographical and chronological discovery of the Middle East, with Assyrian coins and objects from Nineveh, Greece, Rome, Cyprus, Etruria and Gaul, from the fourth millennium to the third century CE including Cycladic vases, a remarkable Minoan oenochoe (fifteenth century BCE), Corinthian perfume vases decorated with animal or floral prints, ceramics, a black figure vessel with a red face , a kouros, and Etruscan and Roman bucchero ware, bronze objects, children's toys, a Venus marble, and glassware. Image: Doll in a sitting position, articulated arms. Fema...