The Stratera Museum
Welcome to the special exhibition presented by our team!
Countless statues of Anubis were found on Egyptian sites. Our reference here is the Statuette of Anubis from the Metropolitan Museum. Sometimes the Anubis would hold a spear in his hand to assume the role of the guardian; here he raises his hands in a greeting gesture, welcoming the pharaoh who was divine and free of sin to the underworld.
A curation on the object can be found at the MET. |
The reference we used for this artifact is a dragon-shaped pendant, now in the collection of Xuzhou Museum in China. It was excavated from Prince Chu’s tomb (楚王陵), dated to around 100 BC (Han Dynasty). The jade pendant can be viewed on the museum’s website.
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Our reference is the 0.5m high louterion (perirrhanterion) held at the Archaeological Museum of Isthmia, Corinth, one of the most unique representations of 6th c. BC Eastern Greek art. Although this piece was excavated at Corinth, Corinthian pottery was also commonly exported to other parts of the Greek world, including the Greek colonies in Southern Italy which classicists define as the Western Greek world.
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Our reference for the Celtic Brooch is the famous Tara Brooch, now in the permanent exhibition of the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin. It is an exquisite work of early medieval Irish jewelry. Although discovered much farther inland, it was named after the Hill of Tara, the mythical seat of the High Kings of Ireland, in the 19th century for publicity.
The whole exhibition can be viewed virtually on the website. |
Our artist took inspiration from the famous cave art in the Lascaux cave, discovered in 1940 in the village of Montignac, France. See the National Geographic article for its story & more technical aspects of the wall-paintings!
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