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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Amulet of a frog - Hekat
EGYPT
Funerary cone
EGYPT
Head of Gudea
IRAQ
Bowl
SYRIA / CYPRUS
The Architectural Antiquities of Normandy, parts I-IV
John Sell COTMAN
Pelike (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Aryballos
GREECE, Corinth
Foundation cone
IRAQ, Ur
Unguent bottle
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY / GAUL
Comb
EGYPT, Matmar, grave 31/5002
Fragment of a coffin
EGYPT
String of beads
EGYPT
Lekythos (Attic black figure ware)
GREECE, Athens
Clay tablet
IRAQ
Clifton House
Wenceslaus HOLLAR; Richard HALL (draughtsman)
Aryballos
ITALY, Etruria
View of the ancient Appian Way which passes alongside the wall already described in the previous views of the Ustrinum (crematorium)...
Giovanni Battista PIRANESI
Fragment of a brick
IRAQ
Beaker (Gnathia ware)
ITALY, Apulia
Pelike (Gnathian ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Jar
WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN / GAUL
Lekythos (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Beak-spouted jug
IRAN, Luristan
Small jar
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY
Figure of Isis suckling Horus the Child
EGYPT
Jug
SYRIA
Fragment of a brick
IRAQ, (Babylon)
Geometric wreath mosaic
NORTH COAST OF AFRICA, (Carthage)
Miniature oinochoe (south Italian painted ware)
ITALY, (Apulia); XENON GROUP (attributed to)
Squat lekythos (Gnathia ware)
ITALY, Gnathia