The Archaeological Museum of Cirene is actually in equipment. In this museum are custodited a great part of a statues, reliefs and plates that belong to the Cirenaica places. The statuary comprises a famous marble group, the
Three Graces, which was founded in the city. This iconographic theme was many diffuse in Greek and Roman age, in fact there is another same group in Tripoli Museum, but this preserver in a better manner. Between the statues of heroes and emperor wich you will find in the Museum there is a beautiful marble bust of
Alexander the Great, some arcaic greek statues named
kore and
kouros, a stone
Sphix. There are also many beautiful stone
funerary statues. Some of this not have a face, others have the face covered by a veil. They represent Persefone, the goddes of the death. In the museum there are also some marble protraits of roman emperors and their wive, like
Faustina, the wife of Antonino Pio,
Agrippina, Caligola's wife and also the marble portraits of some Roman emperor, like
Marco Aurelio,
Adrian,
Tiberio and
Tolomeo III, the king of Cirene. There is also the portrait of the famous
Berenice, which was the character of a famous Callimaco poem. There are many statues of divinity, like
Athena,
Zeus,
Demetra,
Dionysus,
Hermes and
Cupid. There are a statue of
Apollo,
Dioscuri and
Muse, a
Serapide statue and many beautiful
plates. There is also a
Nimph statue and a
little marble head, a statue of
sacerdot and some
reliefs. There are also many
Isis statues,
Gorgonenion, a
Hekataion statuette and many mosaic
panels. In the end, you will find many beautiful gold and silver
jewels that belong to the desertic popoulation.