May 24, 2005
May 24 Photos: Ben
Follow the whitewashed stone road: The group makes the descent from the hotel to the harbor.
Professor Rutter points out the various relief scenes on this seventh century pithos, one of the highlights of the Mykonos museum. The neck contains a depiction of the Trojan Horse.
Ah yes, the memories of New Hampshire. Peter sits beside a piece of granite, the local bedrock of Delos that reminded us of our beloved Granite State. Granite and gneiss are used frequently at Delos in foundations of buildings.
The Agora of the Competialists sits adjacent to the modern harbor of Delos. Who knows if the wheeling and dealing that took place here ripped off visitors like the shopkeepers in modern Mykonos.
The FSPers use their Greek language skills to translate the dedicatory inscription on the Stoa of Philip V.
Dedications line the Sacred Way at Delos like billboard advertisements on Broadway.
Neha stands beside the Naxian marble base for the Statue of Apollo. Unfortunately, the statue seems to be missing…
But not so fast! Jackie poses next to the upper torso of the Archaic Statue of Apollo. Currently, it sits dozens of meters from the base. Presumably somebody tried to drag the statue to the water but gave up on the heavy piece of marble.
The group stands at the northwest corner of the “Great” Temple of Apollo, the only peripteral building on the site.
Up, up and away! No, Nkosi is not trying to fly. Instead, she is recreating the battering ram that may have stood at the front of the Monument of the Bulls, the long narrow building that probably housed a trireme.
That’s no moo-dern reconstruction. Laura stands next a bull triglyph, one of the many that were sculpted on the frieze of the Stoa Antigonus.
These famous Delos lions, while seemingly needing a hearty meal or two, stood just outside the northern end of the sacred part of Delos.
This mosaic-covered cistern from the House of Diadoumenos gave the residents a private water source, so they would not have to leave the house and mingle with the riff-raff at the public cistern.
Katherine and the Technicolored Rock Pile: Katherine kneels beside a pile of rocks that made up a multicolored mosaic floor.
Inside the Delos museum, the group examined many statues, from Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. This akroterion stood above the Monument of the Bulls.
Polygnotos the painter has nothing on us. Neha, Laura and Jackie create their own wall paintings inside the Delos museum.
The spectacular view of coast of Mykonos town from the Delos-Mykonos ferry.