Adjacent to the ruins is the Delphi Museum. All the friezes and statuary that was excavated are housed in this museum. The majority of the items are offerings to the gods and a small amount are funerary goods. The most intriguing of the items were the photographs of the excavation in progress.
Bronze offerings
How the complex looked 2000 years ago
More offerings
A huge sarcophagus
Hunters
and griffins
with incredible details on the sides
See your butt
Bird figurines
Cawwww!
What might this beast be?
A very rare bronze bowl offering, most bronze items were recycled into coins or more statues
Horses and bulls
This sphinx is 6 feet tall
It was on a 20 foot pedestal originally
Scenes along the top of one of the old temples
High stepping horses
Lots of killing
The details even show the yolk holding the horses to the chariot
Spectators to the carnage?
Score one for the lion
Big bull, little bull
Oink
The original Milli Vanilli
At first I thought that something naughty but then I remembered that Ulysses men escaped the cyclops by hiding under the sheep
Piggyback ride
Which one is Manilli and which one is Vanilli
As they were being excavated
Off with his head
Ivory and gold
Cow of silver on a copper base
More gold and ivory
One seriously large complex
The following statues are seen here in a photo from the 1890's during the excavation
The skill!
Dancer
Body parts
The drapery
Woof!
My leg!
More life sized body parts
One huge 26 meter statue, this is the base
this is the top
This statue is in the photo
top right
Middle bottom
hailing a taxi
more findings amongst the rubble
This guy looks familiar
One of only a few bronze statues the survived to modern times
They found a few other parts but the chariot driver is to the left in the drawing
Intense look on the driver
Where are my shoes?
A lonely road side memorial
This one may have been hit by a car
A long way down
We are back!
A flock of grey herons flying off in the distance
