DERVENI bronze crater with dionysian scenes, unique in the history of art .
Tombs at Derveni, a necropole of Ancient Lete (They contained male and female cremations and burials with rich offerings, dated to the last quarter of the 4th century BC. The offerings were luxurious metal, clay and glass vases, gold jewellery, iron weapons and bronze strigilis.


The Gold Of Macedons - The use of gold in jewellery, decoration and coinage as well as the technology of gold-mining and gold-working in ancient Macedonia. Gold objects - like the ivy wreath from Sevasti, the diadem from Sedes and the bracelet from Europos - are accompanied by other works of the famous Macedonian metalsmiths - among them the Derveni krater - as well as luxury funerary gifts to members of the Macedonian aristocracy.