Astarte. La dea dai mille volti.
The exhibition follows the origins and iconographies of Astarte, goddess of a thousand faces linked to the areas of fertility, fecundity, eros, revenge and war as evidenced in the art and in the descriptions of the sources of the ancient Near East and of the classical world. The exhibition itinerary, through the collections of the Museum of the Near East, Egypt and the Mediterranean, from Cyprus and Malta, Sicily and Sardinia, will start from the most ancient Inanna of the Sumerians, and then continue with the Semitic Ishtar, the Phoenician Astarte, the Egyptians Hathor, Isis and Sekhmet, the Hittite / Khurrian Khepat, the Hellenistic Atargatis, up to Aphrodite, Venus.