- Room 11: Cycladic Islands
- Room 12: Minoan and Mycenaean
- Room 12b: Greece: Mycenaeans
- Room 13: Greece 1050-520 BC
- Room 14: Greek vases
- Room 15: Athens and Lycia
- Room 16: Bassai sculptures
- Room 17: Nereid Monument
- Room 18: Greece: Parthenon
- Room 19: Greece: Athens
- Room 20: Greeks and Lycians
- Room 21: Halikarnassos
- Room 22: Alexander the Great
- Room 23: Sculpture
- Room 69: Greek and Roman life
- Room 70: Roman Empire
- Room 71: Etruscan world
- Room 72: Ancient Cyprus
- Room 73: Greeks in Italy
- Room 77: Architecture
- Room 78 Classical Inscriptions
The island of Cyprus, in Greek mythology the land of Aphrodite, goddess of love, has been inhabited for at least 12,000 years.
Settlers were attracted by its fertile land and traders by its abundant resources of timber and copper – the word copper actually comes from the name Cyprus.
Major political powers fought for control over Cyprus, because of its strategic location in the Eastern Mediterranean. This long history of contact created a material culture that was diverse, yet still distinctively Cypriot.
The objects on display in Room 72 were all made or found there and illustrate Cypriot culture and civilisation from its earliest known times to the end of the Roman period.
Red Polished Ware figurine cradling a
child
About 1975-1850 BC
