Corridor

The corridor, about three meters wide, unifies the three halls and at the same time is used as an exhibition space.

The natural lighting is abundant: the side towards the inner central atrium of the museum, is glass-barred

On display are marble architectural elements, a statue of a Roman official, a statue of a cloak bearer, statue bases, tombstones, table slabs, column-shaped bases of perirrhanteria, sarcophagus and altar, all of them dated at Hellenistic and Roman times.

The mosaic of Elis

In the corridor the well preserved floor mosaics with the symbols of the Nine Muses and the Twelve Labours of Hercules are exhibited. For years since their discovery adorned the old archaeological collection of Elis.

The floor also bore a frame decorated with a stylized astragalus pattern, sprouts and male figures in the corners, perhaps chthonic demons, holding a cannister on their heads. In the spaces between the three emblems, a calyx-shaped vase is depicted from which shoots grow.

Together with a third one, which is barely preserved, they were central decorative themes of the mosaic floor of a luxurious building (mansion – house of the Muses) of the late Roman period (3rd century AD) which was excavated in the southwest of the Agora of Elis.

Interior atrium

From the inner corridor of the museum, the visitor can exit to the spacious inner atrium with the stone-built cladding on the walls and the small garden. Various architectural elements such as Ionic and Corinthian capitals made of marble and sandstone, column bases or the massive sandstone parapet(thorakion) slabs with reliefs of the inner and outer shield on both sides, from the Hellenistic period, are exhibited here.

Also, a stone slab that was part of “valvis”, the starting mechanism for runners (hysplix) originating probably from the Gymnasium of Elis (not yet excavated).