Index Classification: Art Movement/Style

Iron Age in the Ancient Near East

Ancient Near Eastern Art, Iron Age

Works of Art (27)

	Arrowheads, early 1st millennium B.C., Caucasus Mountain region, Bronze (1991.314.3-.8)
	Bell inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti, 786–756 B.C., Eastern Anatolia or Northwestern Iran, Urartian, Bronze, iron (1977.186)
	Belt fragment of animals, 7th century B.C., Northwestern Iran, possibly Gushi, Bronze (52.123)
	Bird handles from a bowl or basin, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C., Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu, Bronze (61.100.3a,b)
	Bowl with radiating petal design, 8th–6th century B.C., Phrygian or Lydian; Anatolia, Silver (66.116)
	Cup with a frieze of gazelles, early 1st millennium B.C., Northwestern Iran, Caspian region, Gold (62.84)
	Cylinder seal and modern impression with winged horse with claws and horns, 13th century B.C.; Middle Assyrian style, Northern Mesopotamia, Chalcedony (1999.325.89)
	Ewer, 7th–6th century B.C., Phoenician; [Spain?], Bronze (55.121.1)
	Fibula, 8th–7th century B.C., Central Anatolia, Phrygia, Bronze (1970.231.1)
	Figure of a lion, first half of 1st millennium B.C., Anatolia or Syria, Copper alloy (2002.457a,b)
	Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings, 14th century B.C.; Middle Elamite period, Southwestern Iran, Bronze (63.74)
	Jar, mid-6th millennium B.C.; Hacilar I type, South central Anatolia, Ceramic with paint (64.286.5)
	Jug with a lion handle, late Dynasty XIX–Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1188–712 B.C.), From Bubastis, Silver (07.228.187)
	Lion head plaque, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C., Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu, Ivory (65.163.22)
	Lion head terminal, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C., Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu, Bronze (63.109.1)
	Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshipper, 8th–7th century B.C., Urartian; Eastern Anatolia, Silver, gold foil (1989.281.20)
	Modern Impression of a stamped seal: hunters and goats, rectangular pen(?), early 2nd millennium B.C., Gulf region (ancient Dilmun), Steatite or chlorite (1987.96.22)
	Nude goddess figurine, [late 8th–7th century B.C.?], Excavated at Tell el-Duweir (ancient Lachish), southern Levant, Ceramic (34.126.53)
	Part of a throne with deity on a bull, late 8th–7th century B.C.; Urartian style, Probably Toprakkale, eastern Anatolia, Bronze (50.163)
	Pin with recumbent lion, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C., Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu, Bronze (61.100.10)
	Plaque fragment inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti (probably Argishti II), 8th–7th century B.C., Eastern Anatolia or Northwestern Iran, Urartian, Bronze (1976.5)
	Roundel with the head of a "hero" surrounded by caprids, 14th century B.C.; Middle Elamite period, Southwestern Iran, Bitumen, traces of silver and gold foil (1989.281.24)
	Sickle sword, 1307–1275 B.C.; Middle Assyrian period, reign of Adad-nirari I, Mesopotamia, Bronze (11.166.1)
	Spouted jar and stand, 9th century B.C.; Iron Age II, Excavated at Hasanlu cemetery, northwestern Iran, Ceramic (60.20.15)
	Standard top, 8th–7th century B.C., Luristan, western Iran, Bronze (1996.82.1)
	Standard top, late 2nd millennium B.C.; Middle Elamite period, Southwestern Iran, Bronze (57.13.1)
	Vessel fragment with geometric design, 7th–6th century B.C., Anatolia, Phrygia, Gordion, Ceramic, paint (L.1994.96.6)