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Chiton (tunic)

Lead myrrh flask (koutrouvion)

Gold bracelets with enamel decoration

Silver reliquary

Printed Gospel

Tetraevangelio (Four Gospels)

Music Manuscript (Irmologion)

Music Manuscript (Divine Liturgies)

Purple codex leaf

General view of Mount Athos

General view of the Mount Sinai

Saint George and Xenophontos Monastery on Mount Athos

Saint George and Xenophontos Monastery on Mount Athos

Virgin Mary “Gerontissa”

Icon with Christ, Man of Sorrows

Double-sided icon with Virgin and Saint Barbara

Icon of Saint Govdelaas

Icon on leather of Saint Nicholas

Joseph in the well

Double-sided icon with Virgin Mary Glykofilousa and the Crucifixion

Icon of Christ Pantokrator (the Widsom of God)

Two-zone icon with six saints

Icon of the Adoration of the Magi

Bema Door with the Annunciation and the apostles Peter and Paul

Icon of Panagia Dexiokratousa (holding Christ with her right hand)

Glass oinochoe

Octagonal glass jug

Glass kandela

Glass unguentarium

Glass unguentarium

Glass unguentarium

Glass vessel

Kandela

Glass flask

Handleless glass vessel

Pectoral crosses

Gold earrings

Glass bracelet

Copper-alloy ring

Glass pendant

Pectoral cross

Gold earring

Bronze fibula

Bronze signet-ring

Steatite pectoral cross

Copper-alloy lamp

Miniature model oil lamps

Clay hearth

Clay burial amphora

Clay whistle

Clay money-box

Therinos (martyr), artwork of Christos Lefakis

Fresco with a lamp in a wreath

Fresco with birds and basket, artwork of Christos Lefakis

The Good Shepherd, artwork of Christos Lefakis

Nikos Alexiou “The End”

Hyperpyron of John V and Anna of Savoy

Hyperpyron of Andronicus II Palaeologos

Hyperpyron of Michael VΙII Palaeologus

Hyperpyron of John III Doukas Vatatzes

Hyperpyron of Manuel I Komnenos

Hyperpyron of John II Komnenos

Hyperpyron of Alexius I Komnenos

Clay amphora

Clay strainer

Clay bowl

Glazed bowl with a monogram of St Demetrios

Fragment of a glazed bowl with the figure of St Demetrios

Spyros Papaloukas “Horarion”

Saint Demetrios by Polycletos Rengos

Solidus of Theophilus

Solidus of Heraclius

Solidus of Justinian I

Marble inlay in an “opus sectile” technique

Wall mosaic with basin and peacock

Wall mosaic with Saint Demetrios in supplication

Fragment of a mosaic floor from the nave of a basilica

Mosaic floor of a residence’s triclinium with geometric decoration and an inscription on a tabula ansata with the names of its owners

Mosaic residential floors with geometric and floral decoration

Fragment of a mosaic floor from a tomb with overlapping circles

Fragment of a mosaic floor from the city’s Galerian complex

Part of a constructed ciborium with representation of Archangels Michael, Gabriel, apostle Paul and a young martyr

Wall painting depicting the Virgin in a gesture of supplication flanked by sanctified deacons

Wall painting with a representation of the Dormition of Saint Nicholas

Wall painting of the healing Saints Cosmas and Damiamos

Wall painting from a residence with subjects that imitated opus sectile and orthomarmarosis

Fresco with the Protoplasts Adam and Eve from the eastern narrow side of a twin vaulted tomb

Detached wall painting with two zones of a tomb, imitating marble revertment and depicting a sea scene

Relief arch with peacocks and angles, supported by two pillars with elaborated relief decoration

Ionic impost capital with rich plant decoration and crosses

Relief slab of pseudo-sarcophagus with crosses and plants

Part of architrave with the monogram of Palaelogans

Relief slab of a pseudo-sarcophagus with crosses and birds

Two relief slabs of door frame with rich plant decoration and animals

Lead seal of Alexios Komnenodoukas Palaeologos

Lead seal of the officer Niketas Chalkoutzis

Lead seal of Theophilopoulos

Lead seal of Constantine, vestarchi, katepano of Melitini and anagraphea (11th c.)

Lead seal of Ecdics of Hagia Sophia

Lead seal of Patriarch Michael I Cerularius

Lead seal of Irene Komnene Doukaina Palaeologos

Lead seal of the emperor Michael VIII Palaeologus

Lead seal of Michael VII Doukas

Lead seal of the emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (913-959)

Fan-shaped pulpit

Fragment of a mural mosaic

Tunic

Sakkos of the Bishop of Melenikon Ioannikios

Epitaphios

Wall painting with a scene of family worship

Clay bowl with a bird pecking a tree

Detail of a mosaic floor with the south wind

Wall painting with a scene of Sink

Wall-panting with Sosannah and the Jewish judges

Gold cross-reliquary

Marble icon with Praying Virgin

Table support with the Good Shepherd

Marble icon of Hosios David