The Archaeological Museum of Rodos island

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The Archaeological Museum has been housed since 1916 in the building of the Hospital of the Knights, at Museum Square, near the commercial port city. There are finds from ancient Ialyssos and ancient Kamiros, sculptures from Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman period as well as mosaic floors from Hellenistic Age, from the town of Rodos. The main entry leads to a internal courtyard with a made of marble lion and mosaic flooring from an Early Christian church of 5th century B.C. Upstairs, there are sculptures of the season of Knights, funereal bas-reliefs of After-Roman Season as well as sepulchral columns, with more characteristic the Column of Kritoys and Timaristas.

Also,three monuments causing impression are the statue of the Marine Venus, found at sea, the marble head of the Sun, found in a building where it was suspected that the Temple of the Sun was located and Venus in Rodos, marble statue, which is a copy of bathers Venus.