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Household furniture, marble and bronze fountainheads in the form of Eros and the Dolphin, tables and tripods, oil lamps, and ceramic vessels were found as well as portraits of emperors, busts of scholars like Menander and Socrates, toys and flutes made from eagle feathers. These items are displayed in the first hall of the museum. The most important pieces are the bronze Eros, the Dolphin fountainhead, the busts of Menander and Emperor Marcus Aurelius, and the famous Eros head by Lysippos. The Socrates fresco in the Socrates Room is one of the most highly coveted pieces of ancient art in the world. |
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