Sunday, 27 September 2026

In the Benaki Museum, Athens

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It's the Athenian equivalent of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, my favourite London museum. I discovered it just now.

Both contain the eclectic collections of interesting men. 

The Zambaccian is the Bucharest equivalent. 

Here is 6th century AD tapestry fragment showing a personification of Spring. It's like Picasso.





Mid 16th century, possibly from a workshop in Wallachia or Moldavia, but it looks late 19th century, perhaps Burne-Jones:






225-50 AD Egyptian tomb portrait on linen.







Afghanistan 1st to 3rd century AD.


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