Collection Online

Browse by artist name

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
String of beads

String of beads
 Predynastic Period – Early Dynastic Period 5300 BCE-2686 BCE

Medium
faience, (brown glazed steatite)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
faience, (brown glazed steatite)
Place/s of Execution
Egypt
Inscription
none
Accession Number
D212-1994
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Discover more

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
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
Essay
Please scream inside your heart

Explore the collection

Jar JORDAN, Pella, tomb 62 Funerary cone EGYPT Lekanis (South Italian black-glaze ware) SOUTH ITALY Amphoriskos EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria) Flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Geometric wreath mosaic NORTH COAST OF AFRICA, (Carthage) Bottle flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Lekythos (South Italian red-figure ware) SOUTH ITALY Vase EGYPT Dropper flask SYRIA Jug SYRIA Pelike (Gnathian ware) SOUTH ITALY The Hands and the Faces John BRACK Bowl SYRIA / CYPRUS Pelike (South Italian red-figure ware) SOUTH ITALY Lid of pyxis (South Italian red-figure ware) ITALY, Apulia Jar (wavy-handled ware) EGYPT, Diospolis Parva Clifton House Wenceslaus HOLLAR; Richard HALL (draughtsman) Titlepage Wenceslaus HOLLAR Jug in the form of a bull IRAN Flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Aryballos GREECE, Corinth Jar EGYPT Jar WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN / GAUL Amulet of a frog - Hekat EGYPT Flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN Fragment of a coffin EGYPT Head of Isis EGYPT Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian ware) GREECE, Corinth Flask EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)