Exploring Greece, Israel, and Jordan— Part Twenty Eight

Further finds in the nice modern museum in Thessalonike, include this highly decorative mausoleum… with scenes from Greek mythology….

Here is another example of syncretism of Greek and Egyptian art— the kore head on the sphinx body…
There is a room in the museum with remarkable column heads….. To their credit, Romans tended to prefer a realistic portrayal of what they looked like, rather than the Greek tendency towards idealism…. Here is a master and villa owner, to whom his slave erected this monument….

Here is a young athlete depicted with some of the prizes he won…..

I particularly like this stele showing a family in an cart going somewhere…..

Here is an item Paul himself may have seen….. a mile marker on the Via Egnatia which ran through Philippi….

Sometimes monuments help us understand ancient methods of dating events, such as this one….

In some ways, my favorite room in the museum is the helpful depictions of daily life in Paul’s day…..

And just for variety, here’s a model of an ancient siege engine on a ship!