Gem
550 BCE-530 BCE
Medium
stone
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1929
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Exhibition
Survey 15: Relics and Rituals
Essay
Collection care and performance art at the NGV
Essay
Jean Ipoustéguy’s Death of the father at the NGV: marble, metal and lots of ink
Essay
Sacred geometry: The art and life of Reko Rennie
Essay
Exploring frames and framing in late 19th century Melbourne through the transcription of Thallon’s ledger 1888/89–1903
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Breakfast With Bonnard
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Exquisite Corpse
Learning Resource
Digital Creatives: Egyptian Enigma
Video
The Picasso Century | Online tour
Video
Session one: Queer People Archiving Their Histories
Video
Session two: The Legacy of David McDiarmid
Video
Session three: HIV/AIDS Activism, Then and Now
Video
Session four: Landmark LGBTQ+ Exhibitions in Australia
Video
Virtual Curator Tour | Goya
Video
NGVWA Presents ‘Art of Tea’
Video
Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series Keynote: Redesigning Artificial Intelligence – From Australia Out
Video
Salon et Lumière | A Telstra Creativity and Innovation Series presentation
Video
TIWI | Exhibition video tour
Learning Resource
Digital creatives: Sea life – NGV Triennial 2020
Video
Drop-by Drawing with Juan Ford | An archer
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Bottle or Unguentarium (Italic/Corinthian ware)
ITALY
Geometric wreath mosaic
NORTH COAST OF AFRICA, (Carthage)
Amulet of a frog - Hekat
EGYPT
Lekanis lid (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Jar
JORDAN, Pella, tomb 62
Jar (wavy-handled ware)
EGYPT, Diospolis Parva
Lekythos (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
The Hands and the Faces
John BRACK
Fragment of a door jamb
EGYPT
Jug (red polished I ware)
CYPRUS, Vounous
Miniature oinochoe (south Italian painted ware)
ITALY, (Apulia); XENON GROUP (attributed to)
Jar
EGYPT
Jug in the form of a bull
IRAN
Aphrodite
ITALY
Bracelet
SYRIA
Head of Queen Nefertiti, from sculpture flanking Boundary Stela Q
EGYPT, el-Amarna
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Lamp
(PALESTINE)
Jar
IRAQ
Comb
EGYPT, Diospolis Parva
Lekythos (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Clifton House
Wenceslaus HOLLAR; Richard HALL (draughtsman)
Stamped brick
IRAQ, Ur
Head of Isis
EGYPT
Foundation cone
IRAQ, Ur
Beaker
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
String of beads
EGYPT
Jar
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN / GAUL
Top of a small obelisk
EGYPT
Jar
EGYPT