Location: University Place, University of Sydney, Camperdown, NSW
Country: Gadigal
LGA: City of Sydney
Region: Western Sydney
Website: http://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/
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Located in the heart of the University of Sydney, the Chau Chak Wing Museum was designed to share the University of Sydney’s vast collections with the broader community … more >>
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The Hercules Constellation
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Exhibition panel illustrating the Labours of Herakles (Hercules), a character from Greek and Roman mythology remembered now as an eponymous star constellation, as documented by Claudius Ptolemy. The constellation Hercules probably dates back some 5,000 years to ancient Babylonia, when it may have been known as the “Standing Gods”, however. It might also have been associated with the hero Gilgamesh.
Southwest Asian Collection
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Left: a gypsum stele from the North-west Palace, Nimrud, Iraq, found in the throne room of King Ashumasirpal II at Nimrud by Sir Max Mallowan in 1950. It dates from the Neo-Assyrian period, 875-874 BCE.
Right: A limestone wall relief of Aramaean warriors from Syria found in the Southwest Palace, Nineveh, Iraq, and dating to the Neo-Assyrian period, 700-680 BCE. It was excavated in 1847-51 by Sir Austen Henry Layard, and bought from the Layard family in 1951.
Egyptian Collection
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Top right: The coffin of a man called Padiashaikhet, whose titles, inscribed in hieroglyphs, mean ‘father of the god’ and ‘beloved of the god’. It was excavated from Thebes, in Upper Egypt, and dates from 25th Dynasty (725-700 BCE). The image on the chest area of his coffin represents the Sun god, Amun-Ra .
Bottom left: The Hathor capital excavated from the Temple of Bubastis, in the Nile Delta near the modern city of Zagazig, in the 1880s. It is made from red granite and dates to c. 900 BCE. Hathor was an Egyptian sky deity, the mother and consort of the Sky god Horus and the Sun god Ra. Bubastis was a centre of worship of the cat goddess Bastet who was also connected to the Sun god Ra.
Bottom right: A black diorite bust of Horemheb as a scribe before he became Pharoah in 1336 BCE (18th Dynasty). The bust was found in the great temple to the creator god Ptah, in Memphis, Egypt. It was donated to the University by Sir Charles Nicholson c.1860-1870.
Photos by Merrill Findlay, 3 October 2024.
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