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Sickle sword

Date: ca. 1307–1275 B.C.
Accession Number: 11.166.1

Tribute bearer with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Date: ca. 8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 60.145.11

Cylinder seal: hunting scene

Date: ca. 2250–2150 B.C.
Accession Number: 41.160.192

Figure of a reclining woman

Date: ca. 2nd century B.C.–2nd century A.D.
Accession Number: 86.16.3

Cylinder seal: Ishtar image and a worshiper below a canopy flanked by winged genies

Date: ca. 8th–7th century B.C.
Accession Number: 1989.361.1

Weight in shape of frog

Date: ca. 2000–1600 B.C.
Accession Number: 1988.301

Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief

Date: ca. 3300–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 50.218

Vessel stand with ibex support

Date: ca. 2600–2350 B.C.
Accession Number: 1974.190

Openwork plaque with an oryx eating a plant beside a tree

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 58.31.3

Stele of Ushumgal

Date: 2900–2700 B.C.
Accession Number: 58.29

Bowl Emulating Chinese Stoneware

Date: 9th century
Accession Number: 63.159.4

Necklace pendants and beads

Date: ca. 18th–17th century B.C.
Accession Number: 47.1a-h

"Men Treading Grapes", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Date: dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224
Accession Number: 56.20

Two Panels with striding lions

Date: ca. 604–562 B.C.
Accession Number: 31.13.1-.2

Statue of Gudea

Date: ca. 2090 B.C.
Accession Number: 59.2

Human-headed winged bull and winged lion (lamassu)

Date: ca. 883–859 B.C.
Accession Number: 32.143.1–.2

Standing male worshiper

Date: ca. 2900–2600 B.C.
Accession Number: 40.156

Seated female

Date: ca. 5600–5000 B.C.
Accession Number: 1985.84

Headdress

Date: ca. 2600–2500 B.C.
Accession Number: 33.35.3

Head of a ram

Date: ca. 3500–3100 B.C.
Accession Number: 1981.53

Relief panel

Date: ca. 883–859 B.C.
Accession Number: 32.143.4

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 1988.433.1

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri (d. 1320–21)

Date: dated A.H. 707/ A.D. 1307–8
Accession Number: 55.44

"Preparing Medicine from Honey", Folio from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides

'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl

Date: dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224
Accession Number: 57.51.21

Man carrying a box, possibly for offerings

Date: ca. 2900–2600 B.C.
Accession Number: 55.142

Head of a roaring lion

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 62.269.1