The Mystery Sphere of Athens

When is a mystery truly mysterious?
This was the thought that ran through my
puzzled mind, when I first saw the magic
sphere of Helios, exhibited at the new
Acropolis Museum in Athens.
Why is this antiquity so terribly understated?
Were the museum authorities trying to tell
the visitor to move on and not to waste their
valuable time looking at this particular exhibit?
I was completely fascinated by the strange
symbols and inscriptions, together with the
statue of liberty lookalike, all covering the
entire surface of the marble sphere.
My fingers had automatically reached into my
camera bag, pulling out my trusty old camera.
Within less than a minute I had taken
more than a dozen shots of this truly magical
globe, covered with what I perceived to be
sacred geometric symbolism.