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Today, traveling an hour by ferry from Piraeus, the port of Athens, the first remnant of Aegina's great past a visitor will see is the lonely pillar of Apollo rising from the trees on the hill of Kolona. Once a splendid complex of three buildings...

A cup depicting an owl in the red-figure style. Attributed to the Marlay painter, third quarter 5th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Mykonos)

A fresco depicting flying-fish from Phylakopi, Melos. Late Cycladic, 16th century BCE. (National Archaeological Museum, Athens)

A 28cm high, marble harp player from the Cycladic islands, 2700-2300 BCE. It is one of the earliest representations of a musician from the Bronze Age Aegean. (J.Paul Getty museum, Malibu, USA).

A marble head from a large Cycladic figure sculpture, 2600-2500 BCE. The head shows traces of pigment on the forehead - probably a diadem - and the nose and cheeks. (J.Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, USA).

A Cycladic female figurine of the 'folded-arm' type. Early Spedos Variety. Attributed to the Fitzwilliam Master, Early Cycladic II Period (2700-2300 BCE). Made from marble. The red pigment (found on the neck and head) is from cinnabar...

This vessel is decorated with an incised herring-bone pattern. The pyxis, commonly used in burials of the Early Cycladic I Period, was probably used as a container for jewellery or other small items. Early Cycladic I Period (3200-2700...

A geometric Cycladic vase. Stone, Naxos, 9th-8th century BCE. (Mykonos Archaeological Museum)

Vessels of this type are counted among those intended exclusively for funerary use during the Early Cycladic Period. Early Cycladic II Period, (2700-2300 BCE). Made from marble. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).

Early Cycladic 'violin' figurines in marble, 3200-2800 BCE. The figurines represent a squatting female figure but their exact significance is not known. Most probably they represent a female fertility deity. (National Archaeological Museum...