Scarab
747 BCE-332 BCE
Medium
stone
Measurements
3.3 × 2.4 × 1.3 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Egypt
Inscription
none
Accession Number
D232-1994
Department
Antiquities
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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
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
Beak-spouted jug
IRAN, Luristan
Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian ware)
GREECE, Corinth
Flat-bodied flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Lekythos (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
String of beads
EGYPT
Oinochoe (Attic red-figure ware)
GREECE, Attica
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Dropping a Han Dynasty urn
AI Weiwei
Dropper flask
SYRIA
Aryballos (Etrusco-Corinthian ware)
ITALY
Amulet of a frog - Hekat
EGYPT
Aphrodite
ITALY
Jar
EGYPT
String of beads
EGYPT
Small jar
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY
Squat lekythos (Gnathia ware)
ITALY, Gnathia
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Sculptor's model for the head of a king
EGYPT
Jar (wavy-handled ware)
EGYPT, Diospolis Parva
Fragment of a brick
IRAQ, (Babylon)
Bracelet
SYRIA
Figure of Isis suckling Horus the Child
EGYPT
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Bottle flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Clifton House
Wenceslaus HOLLAR; Richard HALL (draughtsman)
Alabastron (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Foundation cone
IRAQ, Ur
Head of Gudea
IRAQ
Aryballos
GREECE, Corinth
Unguent bottle
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY / GAUL