Olympia Museum

Room I contains bronzes of the Geometric and Archaic periods (ninth-sixth century B.C.), including elements from tripods, figures of horses, weapons and small bronzes.

Room II contains more bronzes - helmets and weapons, griffins' heads (ca. 600 B.C.), a relief of a female griffin suckling a young one (ca. 620 B.C.), a relief depicting the Lapith Kaineus between two Centaurs (ca. 630 B.C.) and a bronze breastplate with figures of Zeus and Apollo (ca. 650 B.C.). This last piece was originally set up as a trophy on the south side of the Stadion. It was published by Adolf Furtwängler in 1890 but later disappeared; then in 1969 it turned up in Basle and was bought by Marinatos for 200,000 francs. Other interesting items in this room are a limestone head of the goddess Hera (?) of around 600 B.C. and a terra-cotta acroterion from the pediment of the Heraion.

Striking items in Room IV are a terra-cotta group of Zeus and Ganymede (ca. 470 B.C.), an early classical bronze horse from a four-horse chariot and two helmets, one with an inscription recording that it was dedicated at Olympia in 490 B.C. by Miltiades, the victor of Marathon, the other a trophy of the Persian wars.

In Room III are the treasuries of Gela, with the painted terra-cotta facing of the geison (ca. 560 B.C.), and Megara (ca. 510 B.C.).

In Room V is a statue of Hermes with the boy Dionysos which is generally agreed to be an original work by Praxiteles (ca. 350 B.C.). Room VI contains the bull of Regilla, priestess of Demeter and wife of Herodes Atticus, which originally stood in the Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus.