Event Highlight:
Tūhura's Birthday Party
Planetarium Highlight:
David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Taoka Tawhito
Antiquities
The Alabastron or cylindrical jar is a Mycenaean form adapted from Minoan Crete. Cyprus. Late Helladic period.
Shallow handled cup. Mycenae. Late Helladic period.
Wine jar (amphora). One side depicts a family farewelling a warrior and the other side shows a boy learning to ride. Painted in a style similar to that attributed to an artist now known as the Princeton Painter. Approximately 550 BC.
Statuette of a pharaoh from the New Kingdom. Approximately 600 BC.
Athenian one handled jug (lekythos) showing Aeneas carrying Anchises from Troy., Early 5th century BC.
