Scarab
715 BCE-332 BCE
Medium
stone
Measurements
1.8 × 3.0 × 4.2 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Mrs Airey, 1862
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Bracelet
SYRIA
Jar
JORDAN, Pella, tomb 62
Isis suckling Horus
EGYPT
Alabastron
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Needle
ROMAN ENGLAND
Miniature oinochoe (south Italian painted ware)
ITALY, (Apulia); XENON GROUP (attributed to)
Archaistic kore
ITALY
Fragment of a brick
IRAQ, (Babylon)
Volute krater (Apulian red-figure ware)
ITALY, Apulia; THE GANYMEDE PAINTER (attributed to)
String of beads
EGYPT
Beaker (Gnathia ware)
ITALY, Apulia
Lekythos (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Olpe (Attic black-figure ware)
GREECE, Attica; THE DOT IVY GROUP (related to)
The Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, parts I-IV
John Sell COTMAN
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Needle
ROMAN ENGLAND
Bell krater (Campanian red-figure ware)
ITALY, Campania; THE BOATING PAINTER (attributed to)
Phiale (South Italian Calenian ware)
ITALY, Calvi
Neck amphora (Sicilian red-figure ware)
ITALY, Sicily; THE LENTINI PAINTER (associated with)
Lekythos (Corinthian black-figure ware)
GREECE, Corinth
Lid of pyxis (South Italian red-figure ware)
ITALY, Apulia
Alabastron
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Jug (bichrome I-II ware)
CYPRUS
Pyxis bowl (South Italian red-figure ware)
ITALY, Apulia
Cup (Attic red-figure ware)
GREECE, Attica; THE SPLANCHNOPT PAINTER (attributed to)
Lamp
(PALESTINE)
Foundation cone
IRAQ, Ur
Pelike (Apulian red-figure ware)
ITALY, Apulia; THE PAINTER OF THE BERLIN DANCING GIRL (attributed to)
Needle
ROMAN ENGLAND
Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian ware)
GREECE, Corinth