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Tūhura's Birthday Party
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David Attenborough’s Natural History Museum Alive
Rakahau te Kohika
Antiquities
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
Black-figure oil flask (lekythos) showing a cloaked man seated on a stool between two winged male figures and holding a spear
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.
Cup (skyphos). Approximately 725 BC.
Corinthian aryballos shaped like a hare. Liquid was poured from the holes in the tops of these bottles.
Marble lug-handled pedestal vase. Cycladic Islands (Aegean Sea)
Schematic figurine marble idol. The so-called "Fiddle" idol evolved under Asiatic influence in the Cyclades during the Neolithic period, and was produced until approximately 2000 BC. Cycladic Islands (Aegean Sea)