This room, with six monolithic columns of Serdobol granite, was destined for one of the museum libraries. The floor is decorated with a 4th-century mosaic uncovered in a Christian basilica during excavations of Chersonesus in 1854. The present display is devoted to the art of Ancient Greece in the High Classical period (5th century B.C.). Visitors obtain an idea of the work of the great sculptors of that era - Myron, Polyclitus and Phidias - from copies made in the Roman period. The room also contains Greek red-figure vases (among them a stamnos and a krater by Kleophon Painter), grave reliefs and coins.
