Event Highlight:
After Dark – Neon Nights
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Rakahau te Kohika
Antiquities
Figured by Trendall in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Willi Fels Memorial Gift
Cup from Mochlos in Crete. Middle Minoan period. 2000-1600 BC.
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
Cups. Knossos, Crete. Late Minoan period. 1650-1500 BC
Female terracotta head from a statuette, featuring a ‘melon’ hairstyle covered by a veil
White-ground perfume bottle (alabastron) depicting a woman with torches at an altar beside a palm tree
Red-figure mug showing a young man, ram and leaf
Red-figure wine jug (oinochoe) with a woman farewelling a young man
Bronze attachment adorned with a winged deity
Bronze mirror case that displays a seated Aphrodite. She faces winged Eros, who holds a rooster.
Terracotta head from thea statuette of a goddess wearing a headdress (polos).
Female terracotta head (protome)
Terracotta head from a statuette of a goddess (Kybele or Tyche). She wears a turreted crown.
