Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
Planetarium Highlight:
Dinosaurs: A Story of Survival
Taoka Tawhito
Antiquities
Oil-flask (aryballos). The fine bands of glaze on the body are similar to designs on Corinthian Geometric pottery, but the decoration on the lip-plate shows the new oriental influences. Late 8th century BC
Oil-flask (arybalos) from Crete. The lip-plate has been broken off and lost. The cross-hatched triangles painted on the shoulder were a feature of oil-flasks for nearly two centuries after 900 BC. 745-715 BC
Loom weight. Crete. Minoan Period (2800-1100 BC)
Antiquities, Archaeology