Beads
2454 BCE-2311 BCE
Medium
carnelian, (serpentinite/glazed steatite)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Guy Brunton on behalf of the trustees of the British Museum, 1932
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Essay
Rest on the flight into Egypt with Saint Catherine and angels
Exhibition
Ancient Egypt for Kids
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Learning Resource
Investigating ancient Egypt
Learning Resource
Draw like an Egyptian: Canopic jars
Learning Resource
Egyptian: Canopic chest
Essay
Contributions to the study of the Melbourne Triptych. II: The miracle of the loaves and fishes, The Raising of Lazarus, The Rest on the Flight to Egypt and St Peter
Essay
Imperial fashion victims in provincial Egypt: re-dating Egyptian mummy potraits
Essay
Paris Bordone’s Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Essay
Révolution de la mode
Essay
A closer look: Designing the publication for Pharaoh
Essay
Alato, vase
Essay
The Crossing of the Red Sea
Essay
Rembrandt’s watermarked papers at the National Gallery of Victoria
Learning Resource
Pharaoh | Notes for Educators
Video
Pharaoh | Exhibition overview
Essay
Amorous soldiers and Amazons: queer tales from antiquity
Video
Pharaoh | Exhibition preview
Video
Megacities
Essay
A Conversation with Tracey Emin
Explore the collection
Unguent bottle
MEDITERRANEAN, (Egypt)
Funerary cone
EGYPT
Foundation cone
IRAQ, Ur
Jar (wavy-handled ware)
EGYPT, Diospolis Parva
View of the ancient Appian Way which passes alongside the wall already described in the previous views of the Ustrinum (crematorium)...
Giovanni Battista PIRANESI
Beaker
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Clay tablet
IRAQ
Bracelet
SYRIA
Pyxis (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Vase
EGYPT
Head of Septimius Severus
ITALY
Fragment of brick
IRAQ, (Babylon)
Lekanis lid (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Aryballos
ITALY, Etruria
Lekythos (Attic black figure ware)
GREECE, Athens
Kings and queens
John BRACK
Ushabti figure
EGYPT
Lekythos (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Jar
EGYPT
The Hands and the Faces
John BRACK
Plate (Attic geometric black-figure ware)
GREECE, Attica
Jug in the form of a bull
IRAN
Lekythos (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Amphoriskos
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Flat-bodied flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Jug
SYRIA
Aryballos
GREECE, Corinth
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN