Byzantine Museum of Ioannina

The Byzantine Museum of Ioannina is housed in one of the homes of fortress Its Kale of Ioannina, the capital of the Epirus vicinity in northwestern Greece. The critical phase become built inside the 1960s and originally functioned as a Royal Pavilion. The museum become opened to the general public in 1995. The series of the silver objects is housed in a separate nineteenth-century building at the fortress, and plans are ongoing to unfold the exhibition among several other homes within the citadel.

The museum consists of collections of Early Christian and Byzantine sculptures, excavation unearths from Arta, pottery, manuscripts and early editions of revealed books, publish-Byzantine icons and silver items. Marble fragment of an iconostasis altar display screen, from Glyke. It is adorned with relief representations of birds at the front side and floral styles and interlaced cicles on the lower floor. Dated to the quit of the twelfth or the start of the 13th century Glazed clay icons from the east pediment of the church of St. Basil in Arta.

A pair of icons with the representations of the Crucifixion and the Three Hierarchs date to the 14th century. Left chancel door from the church of Saint Nicholas at Perama. This icon is absolutely the manufactured from a Western workshop. Silver benedictory go with wood carved nucleus. It is included with silver and has attached cord palmettes. At the bottom it is surrounded with the aid of symmetrical spiral antennae, blanketed with ivory.