Object from Athens NAM

“A marble head of a child retrieved from the ashes of Smyrna”
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The marble head inv. no EAM Γ 3616 from the Museum of the Evangelical School of Smyrna.
Smyrna, View of the port of Smyrna ca 1880. Behind the line of waterfront buildings, one may see the bell tower of Agia Fotini on the left and the church of Agios Georgios on the right. The Evangelical School Museum was among them. The Armenian Cathedral of Agios Stefanos can be seen in the background.
View of the premises of the New Evangelical School of Smyrna, in the district of Agia Aikaterini in 1922.
Report of the archaeologist Κonstantinos Kourouniotis to the Ministry of Education dated March 8, 1923. In it he states that the "Museum of the Evangelical School of Smyrna, known worldwide for its precious collections of most important antiquities from Asia Minor, has unfortunately been burnt".
The Unseen Museum
The marble head inv. no EAM Γ 3616 from the Museum of the Evangelical School of Smyrna.
Smyrna, View of the port of Smyrna ca 1880. Behind the line of waterfront buildings, one may see the bell tower of Agia Fotini on the left and the church of Agios Georgios on the right. The Evangelical School Museum was among them. The Armenian Cathedral of Agios Stefanos can be seen in the background.
View of the premises of the New Evangelical School of Smyrna, in the district of Agia Aikaterini in 1922.
Report of the archaeologist Κonstantinos Kourouniotis to the Ministry of Education dated March 8, 1923. In it he states that the "Museum of the Evangelical School of Smyrna, known worldwide for its precious collections of most important antiquities from Asia Minor, has unfortunately been burnt".
The Unseen Museum
The
Unseen Museum
is the well-known exhibition project of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens that brings to the fore antiquities stored in its vaults away from the visitor’s eyes.
This year, the event is dedicated to the
centenary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe
. Ιts third group of exhibits