Every week, the Ministry of Culture and Sports highlights on its official FB account a special exhibit from the country’s museums. This week the selection was made by the archaeological museum of Amphipolis and concerns a clay female bust dating to the end of the 4th century BC.

It was found together with sixteen other busts of various types on a woman’s grave in Amphipolis East Cemetery.

The bust, kept in the Amphipolis museum which includes important and interesting exhibits, depicts woman the view.

She is impressive color preservation in rendering the details of clothing and grooming.

The ministry’s post, among other things, states: “The female form wears tunic and a robe that covers the back of the head and shoulders. With Red color details of the fabrics are rendered, the double necklace on the neck, the flower she holds with her right hand, the hair and lips.

Dynamic touches black color in the design of eyes they perform with great success the expression of restrained sadness.

The white coating emphasizes the ideal of skin beauty for that time.

Similar busts are found in homes, sanctuaries and tombs, always as tributes to deities associated with fertility, reproduction and the regeneration of nature.

Visit the archaeological museum of Amphipolis, which is an integral part of the archeological site of the same name and presents the history of ancient Amphipolis and its wider area, highlighting aspects of life and culture that developed there from prehistoric times to the Byzantine period.”