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Standing male worshiper

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

Eye idol

Date: ca. 3700–3500 B.C.
Accession Number: 51.59.11

Hair Comb Decorated with Rows of Wild Animals

Date: ca. 3200–3100 B.C.
Accession Number: 30.8.224

Stele of Ushumgal

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

Lion Cub

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 66.99.2

Statue of Gudea

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

Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

Date: ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 17.190.106

Fragmentary Face of King Khafre

Date: ca. 2520–2494 B.C.
Accession Number: 26.7.1392

Vessel stand with ibex support

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

Head of a ram

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

Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief

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

The Royal Acquaintances Memi and Sabu

Date: ca. 2575–2465 B.C.
Accession Number: 48.111

Marble seated harp player

Date: 2800–2700 B.C.
Accession Number: 47.100.1

Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion

Date: ca. 2200–2100 B.C.
Accession Number: 48.180

King Sahure and a Nome God

Date: ca. 2458–2446 B.C.
Accession Number: 18.2.4

Cylinder seal: hunting scene

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

Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 66.173

Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots

Date: ca. 3000 B.C.
Accession Number: 2007.280

Seated female

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

Marble female figure

Attributed to the Bastis Master

Date: 2600–2400 B.C.
Accession Number: 68.148

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

Libation Dish Depicting Ka-Arms Presenting an Ankh-Sign

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 19.2.16

Man carrying a box, possibly for offerings

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

Block from the Sanctuary in the Temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahri

Date: ca. 2010–2000 B.C.
Accession Number: 07.230.2

Headdress

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

Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)

Date: ca. 2300–2200 B.C.
Accession Number: 2004.363.1

A Tusk Figurine of a Man

Date: ca. 3900–3500 B.C.
Accession Number: 23.2.31

Storage jar decorated with mountain goats

Date: ca. 3800–3700 B.C.
Accession Number: 59.52