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141 Results Found

Image	Title of Work of Art	Artist or Culture of Origin	Date or Style or Period	Materials and Techniques	Accession Number	Collection
	Administrative tablet		3100–2900 B.C.; Jemdet Nasr period (Uruk III script)	Clay	1988.433.3	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988
	Administrative tablet with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars		3100–2900 B.C.; Jemdet Nasr period (Uruk III script)	Clay	1988.433.1	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1988
	Arrowheads		early 1st millennium B.C.	Bronze	1991.314.3-8	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan P. Rosen, 1991
	Base and feet of a standing figure		2500–2350 B.C.; Early Dynastic III	Stone	59.41.12	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund, 1959
	Beaker with birds and animals		4th century B.C.; Thraco–Geti style	Silver	47.100.88	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund, 1947
	Bell inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti		786–756 B.C.	Bronze, iron	1977.186	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of Nathaniel Spear Jr., 1977
	Belt buckle: paired felines attacking ibexes		3rd–2nd century B.C.; Xiongnu type	Gold	17.190.1672	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Belt clasp		1st–3rd century A.D.	Bronze	21.166.5	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund, 1921
	Belt fragment of animals		7th century B.C.	Bronze	52.123	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund, 1952
	Belt or harness ornament with an eagle and its prey		1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.; Parthian period	Gold inlaid with turquoise	17.190.2055	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Bird handles from a bowl or basin		9th century B.C.; Iron Age II	Bronze	61.100.3ab	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Purchase, Mrs. Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff Gift, 1961
	Bowl		7th–6th millennium B.C.; Halaf period	Ceramic	1983.407	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Purchase, Colt Archaeological Institute Inc. Gift, 1983
	Bowl		late 8th millennium B.C.; Neolithic period	Alabaster (calcite)	1985.356.19	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985
	Bowl with painted decoration		ca. 2600–1900 B.C.	Ceramic, paint	57.99.2	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund and Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, by exchange, 1957
	Bowl with petal design		8th–6th century B.C.	Silver	66.116	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Klejman, in memory of Director James J. Rorimer, 1966
	Brooch in the form of a stag		late 3rd–early 4th century	Bronze	21.166.3	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund, 1921
	Caftan		8th–10th century	Silk, linen, and fur	1996.78.1	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1996
	Ceiling tile with geometric and floral designs		6th century B.C.	Ceramic, paint	L.1994.96.5	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Lent by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Gift of the Turkish Government, 1954)
	Chlorite vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees		ca. 2700–2350 B.C.	Chlorite	17.190.106	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
	Cone mosaic		3300–3100 B.C.; Late Uruk period	Clay, mud plaster	L.1995.48.2	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Lent by Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
	Cult vessel in the form of a tower		19th century B.C.; Old Babylonian period	Ceramic	68.155	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund, 1968
	Cuneiform tablet case		1920–1840 B.C.; Old Assyrian Trading Colony period	Clay	66.245.5b	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Klejman, 1966
	Cuneiform tablet with a bilingual hymn		4th–1st century B.C.	Clay	86.11.286a	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Purchase, 1886
	Cup with a frieze of gazelles		early 1st millennium B.C.	Gold	62.84	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Rogers Fund, 1962
	Cylinder seal and modern impression with winged horse with claws and horns		13th century B.C.; Middle Assyrian style	Chalcedony	1999.325.89	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of Nanette B. Kelekian, in memory of Charles Dikran and Beatrice Kelekian, 1999
	Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene		2250–2150 B.C.; late Akkadian period	Chert	41.160.192	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
	Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshipper below a canopy flanked by winged ...		8th–7th century B.C.; Neo–Assyrian period, modeled style	Chalcedony	1989.361.1	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1989
	Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshipper approaching bearded god		1820–1730 B.C.; Classic Syrian I style	Hematite	1991.368.5	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Purchase, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Gift, 1991
	Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshipper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under ...		early 2nd millennium B.C.; Old Elamite period	Serpentine	1987.343	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Purchase, Howard Phipps Foundation Gift, 1987
	Cylinder seal with a battle of the gods		ca. 2220–2159 B.C.; Akkadian	Lapis lazuli	L.1992.23.4	Ancient Near Eastern Art
	Anonymous Loan

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