Above: In the Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Poros marble relief of two women from the central entrance of the Temple of Prinias, 7th century BC.
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1 are glass luxury perfume bottles from Knossos, 3rd-2nd century BC.
2 is a male siren, which strangely combines a bird body and female head, Knossos cemetery, around 700 BC.
3 is a shrine with a goddess with two prone male figures from Archanes, 9th century BC. The goddess protects the deceased going to the underworld.
4 is a triangular stand for a lamp, from the Kommos Sanctuary, 3rd-2nd century BC.
5 and 6 are bronze drums given as votive (offered in fulfillment of a vow) offerings, from the Idaean Cave, 3rd-2nd century BC.
7 very large pithoi with sophisticated carvings made piece-by-piece with a mould-stamp, from central Crete, 7th-6th century BC.
8 is a part of a frieze from the Temple of Prinias depicting a series of horsemen, 7th century BC.
9 is the lower floor room of the museum with numerous Greek and Roman statues and busts.
10 and 11 is a statue featuring the gods Pluto and Persephone in the form of the Egyptian gods Sarapis and Isis,
with the three headed dog Cerberus, from the Gortyna Temple of Egyptian Deities, 2nd century AD.
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