Cyrene Antiquity Museum

Cyrene Antiquity Museum is an archaeological museum located in Shahhat, Libya. It contains several statues and mosaics from the ancient Greek and later Roman city Cyrene.[1]

Cyrene Antiquity Museum
متحف المنحوتات في شحات
The three graces in Cyrene Antiquity Museum
The three graces in Cyrene Antiquity Museum
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LocationShahhat , Libya
Coordinates32°49′3.500″N 21°51′51.001″E / 32.81763889°N 21.86416694°E / 32.81763889; 21.86416694
TypeArchaeological museum
Collection sizeArchaic Greece and Roman era artifacts
Head of Zeus (Cyrene Antiquity Museum)

According to a multi level research, four out of 200 statues at Cyrene Antiquity museum have previously been identified as dolomitic marble from the northern Aegean island of Thasos.[2]

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  1. ^ "Cyrene Sculpture Museum". temehu.com. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
  2. ^ Poljak, Daniela (2015). Thasian Connections Overseas: Sculpture in the Cyrene Museum (Libya) Made of Dolomitic Marble from Thasos. p. 457. ISBN 978-953-6617-49-4.
  3. ^ Kane, Susan, and Joyce Reynolds. “‘The Kore Who Looks after the Grain’: A Copy of the Torlonia-Hierapytna Type in Cyrene.” American Journal of Archaeology 89, no. 3 (1985): 455–63. https://doi.org/10.2307/504360.