Room I & II - The emergence of the sanctuary and the early offerings
In this halls are presented the finds of the early years of the sanctuary, before the establishment of the cult of Apollo, and the transition to a new area and new cult. Mycenaean figurines and Minoan stone rhyta are displayed with bronze tripods, the earliest offerings to the new deity.
Mycenaean Female Figurines of Phi (Φ) and Psi (Ψ) style
Creto-Cypriot offertory decorated shields, a Phoenician bowl, Phrygian fibulae and Syrian sirens are among the early bronze offerings. A series of votive male figurines of the Geometric period completes the display in Room I.
A bronze votive shield from Crete or Cyprus. It's decorated with relief concentric circles intersected by acuted angles. Around 700 BC.
Room II contains the remaining bronze offerings of the eighth and seventh centuries BC: animal figurines, women's jewellery, votive helmets and the famous «daedalic kouros», a small bronze precursor of the large-scale marble statues of the sixth century.
Delphi Museum - daedalic bronze Kouros
Among the bronzes exhibits are the bronze reliefs of "Eurystheus and Heracles", and "Ulysses escaping from the cave of Cyclops" tied under a ram.
Delphi Museum - Bronze figurine: scared Eurystheus hiding in a subterranean bronze winejar
Delphi Museum - Bronze figurine: Ulysses escaping from the cave of Cyclops tied under a ram.
