The golden ring of the legendary king Theseus got out of storage and is now been displayed, for the first time ever, at Athens’ National Archaeological Museum. The ring that dates back to the Mycenaean period was unearthed during excavations at the Plaka district of Athens in the 1950s, and it was initially dismissed as “fake” before a team of Culture Ministry experts establishes its authenticity. The ring depicts a bull-leaping scene, also including a lion and a tree. It is displayed within the context of the Culture Ministry’s new initiative entitled “The Invisible Museum”, which aims at presenting choice antiquities that have been kept away from public sight in storage warehouses due to lack of adequate space. The display will be rejuvenated every two months with more antiquities meeting the public eye.
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou