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Rakahau te Kohika
Antiquities
Oil bottle (pointed aryballos). Approximately 650 BC.
Oil bottle (aryballos) depicting a swan. Approximately 600 BC.
This oil bottle (aryballos) features two sirens facing each other over a lotus flower. Sirens were mythical half-women, half-bird creatures.
Perfume bottle (alabastron). Approximately 625-600 BC.
Perfume bottle (alabastron) depicting a rooster.
Small two-handled wine jar (amphoriskos) decorated with bards of animals. It features goats, panthers, a ram and a bird. 590-570 BC.
Wine jug (oinochoe) with lid. The simple decoration consists of incised lines. Mid-6th century BC
