We have chosen objects and images of the trees sacred to Athena and symbolizing the city of Athens, athletes crowned with entwined olive branches, young maidens preparing for the wedding ceremonies, vases for perfume oils which illustrate the extraordinary bond between the olive tree and this city of Greece, documenting the exceptional consideration given to the olive tree in the Attica. The citizens of Athens were compared to the branches and leaves of this eternally living tree, to which no enemy could destroy.
 

Amphora Micenese in the form of a stirrup
The stirrup formed amphora were the first kind of vases used for transporting oil across the Mediterranean from east to west. These kind of amphora, full of oil, were not only used in cosmetics, are depicted on the walls of Egyptian tombs and have been found in many places along the coast, here and there in the Mediterranean area.

Material: ceramics
Manufacturing technique: spinning lathe
Origin: Peloponneso
Dated: XII B.C.
Use: container for the commerce of oil