Shell
3600 BCE-2647 BCE
Medium
shell
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by the Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund, 1899
Gallery location
Not on display
Artwork Details
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Rest on the flight into Egypt with Saint Catherine and angels
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Investigating ancient Egypt
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Egyptian: Canopic chest
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Skyphos (Etruscan bucchero ware)
ITALY, Etruria
Unguent bottle
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN / ITALY / GAUL
Lamp
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Fragment of a door jamb
EGYPT
String of beads
EGYPT
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Jar
IRAQ
Lekythos (Attic black figure ware)
GREECE, Athens
Jar
EGYPT
Alabastron (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Bottle or Unguentarium (Italic/Corinthian ware)
ITALY
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Beaker
SYRIA
Jar
EGYPT
Flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, (Syria)
Bottle flask
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Cheek piece from a horse bit
IRAN, Luristan
Pelike (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Comb
EGYPT, Matmar, grave 31/5002
Plate (Attic geometric black-figure ware)
GREECE, Attica
Lekythos (South Italian red-figure ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Beaker
EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
Jar (wavy-handled ware)
EGYPT, Diospolis Parva
The Hands and the Faces
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Aryballos (Italo-Corinthian black-figure ware)
GREECE, Corinth
Squat lekythos (Gnathia ware)
ITALY, Gnathia
Aphrodite
ITALY
Pyxis (Gnathia ware)
SOUTH ITALY
Aryballos
ITALY, Etruria