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Mesopotamian Art

  • Essays (46)
  • Works of Art (186)
  • Chronology (22)
  • Cuneiform tablet: almanac for A.D. 31/32
    86.11.354
  • Cuneiform tablet: list of magical stones
    86.11.64
  • Pendant with the head of Pazuzu
    1993.181
  • Amulet with a Lamashtu demon
    1984.348
  • Dog
    54.117.23
  • Apkallu figure: bird-headed, winged figure carrying a bucket
    54.117.26
  • Apkallu figure: male with a fish-skin hood
    54.117.25
  • Bearded warrior holding a spear
    54.117.24
  • Cuneiform tablet: fragment of a liver omen
    86.11.378b
  • Cuneiform tablet: Gula incantation
    86.11.130
  • Octagonal pyramidal seal
    41.160.234
  • Jug
    32.150.87
  • Incantation bowl with Mandaic inscription
    32.150.89
  • Relief fragment
    32.150.62
  • Wall decoration with floral and vegetal design
    32.150.5
  • Pendant fragment
    32.150.223
  • Bracelet
    32.150.204
  • Earspoon
    32.150.197
  • Pin
    32.150.196
  • Jug
    32.150.166
  • Lamp
    32.150.163
  • Dish
    32.150.154
  • Bowl
    32.150.144
  • Wall decoration with pomegranates in palmettes
    32.150.14
  • Mosaic bead
    32.150.113
  • Wall decoration with floral and vegetal design
    32.150.11
  • Stamp seal with a knob handle: bird of prey with two horned animals caught in its talons
    99.22.3
  • Square plaque seal with stalk handle
    93.17.111
  • Cylinder seal: seated figure approached by a goddess leading a worshiper
    1988.380.2
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: scorpion-man, deities, one on winged lion
    1987.200.1
  • Assyrian Crown-Prince
    32.143.13
  • Relief fragment: cavalrymen along a stream in mountainous terrain
    32.143.16
  • Head of a beardless royal attendant, possibly a eunuch
    33.16.2
  • Foreign groom in a tributary procession
    33.16.1
  • Relief fragment: siege of a city by Assyrian troops
    32.143.15
  • Relief depicting a cavalryman leading his horse beside a stream
    32.143.18
  • Relief: Assyrian soldier conducting captives across the water
    32.143.5
  • Relief: procession of captives
    32.143.17
  • Battle scene of Assyrians storming a citadel
    55.121.4a,b
  • Threshold pavement slab with a carpet design
    X.153
  • Sherd
    1985.61.2
  • Brick fragments with guilloche design
    57.27.24a,b
  • Cuneiform tablet: hymn to Marduk
    86.11.313
  • Cuneiform tablet: private letter
    86.11.111
  • Inscribed brick
    59.41.84
  • Cylinder seal
    1986.311.39
  • Cuneiform tablet: Old Babylonian balag to the mother goddess Aruru
    86.11.62
  • Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Lipit-Eshtar
    1971.71
  • Cuneiform tablet: student exercise tablet
    86.11.251
  • Head of a female
    1989.281.7
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: goddess leading a worshiper to a seated deity; bull god
    1991.368.3
  • Inscribed brick
    59.41.86
  • Male figure
    1983.117
  • Plaque with two male figures supporting a roller
    1980.407.1
  • Ceramic imitation of bronze roller with two kilted figures
    1998.240
  • Plaque with a nude female between two bearded males wearing kilts
    1998.31
  • Figurine
    54.55.2
  • Female figure
    51.7.1
  • Roller
    1984.454.2
  • Roller
    1980.407.3
  • Chair back carved in relief
    59.107.3
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2078
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2079
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2080
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2081
  • Relief panel
    31.72.2
  • Relief panel
    31.72.3
  • Relief panel
    32.143.6
  • Relief panel
    32.143.9
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2077
  • Relief panel
    32.143.10
  • Relief panel
    32.143.11
  • Relief panel
    32.143.12
  • Relief panel
    32.143.14
  • Relief panel
    84.11
  • Brick fragment with the head of an ibex
    57.27.28
  • Champlevé furniture or cosmetic box plaque with a winged youth
    61.197.10
  • Fan or fly-whisk handle in the form of four female figures
    52.23.2
  • Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion
    62.269.1
  • Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds
    58.31.3
  • Pomegranate carved in the round
    54.117.7
  • Head of a female wearing a necklace originally filled with stone inlay and gold
    54.117.2
  • Incised cosmetic box fragments with a warrior and four women
    54.117.11a-c
  • Relief panel
    32.143.8
  • Relief panel
    32.143.7
  • Relief panel
    31.72.1
  • Relief panel
    32.143.3
  • Wall decoration from Ctesiphon
    32.150.45
  • Wall decoration from Ctesiphon
    32.150.12
  • Wall decoration with a reclining youth
    32.150.30
  • Wall decoration with a female dancer
    32.150.25
  • Wall decoration from Ctesiphon
    32.150.21
  • Stele of the protective goddess Lama
    61.12
  • Wall panel with a charging boar
    32.150.22
  • Rhyton with female head
    2001.178
  • Plaque in the form of a reclining man
    55.162.2
  • Cosmetic palette
    56.81.56
  • Earrings
    1984.175.38a,b
  • Earring
    X.94
  • Earrings
    35.29.4
  • Earrings
    35.29.3
  • Earring
    35.29.2
  • Earring
    35.29.1
  • Panel with striding lion
    31.13.2
  • Human-headed winged lion (lamassu)
    32.143.2
  • Wall panel with a guinea fowl
    32.150.13
  • Wall panel with a grapevine
    32.150.24
  • Roundel with radiating palmettes
    32.150.1
  • Panel
    32.150.16
  • Roundel with radiating palmettes
    32.150.4
  • Bead with cuneiform inscription of Kurigalzu I or II
    1994.433
  • Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory(?) inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil
    41.160.187
  • Inscribed brick: dedicatory inscription of Adad-shuma-usur
    59.41.82
  • Cylinder seal
    1985.357.29
  • Cylinder seal
    1985.357.25
  • Mastiff
    1989.233
  • Cylinder seal cap
    47.1l
  • Cuneiform tablet: letter of Sin-sharra-ishkun to Nabopolassar
    86.11.370a,c-e
  • Stamp seal: worshiper kneeling before mushhushshu-dragon and standard
    86.11.35
  • Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon
    86.11.60
  • Cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, stamped with Assyrian hieroglyphic inscription
    86.11.283
  • Top fragment of a kudurru with a mushhushshu dragon and divine symbols
    1985.45
  • Cylinder seal: male worshiper, dog surmounted by a standard
    1985.357.44
  • Jar
    1997.31
  • Mosaic fragments
    32.150.198
  • Mosaic fragments
    32.150.213
  • Drachm of Bahram IV
    99.35.2965
  • Oval bowl with grapevine scrolls inhabited by birds and animals
    59.130.1
  • Wall panel with wings and a Pahlavi device encircled by pearls
    32.150.48
  • Wall panel with a charging bear
    32.150.23
  • Fragment of textile with horses
    2004.255
  • Plate with youths and winged horses
    63.152
  • Plate: the king Yazdgard I, slaying a stag
    1970.6
  • Ashurnasirpal II, King of Assyria, and Cupbearer
    1982.1188.4
  • Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh
    1994.402
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns
    1999.325.89
  • Standing female worshiper
    62.70.2
  • Cuneiform tablet: administrative account with entries concerning malt and barley groats
    1988.433.3
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: three
    1985.143
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription
    1999.325.4
  • Tetradrachm of Seleucus I
    1974.105.9
  • Cuneiform tablet: a-she-er gi-ta, balag to Innin/Ishtar
    86.11.286a
  • Horse blinker with a seated sphinx wearing a uraeus and sun-disk headdress
    54.117.1
  • Plaque with pharaonic figures flanking a sacred tree
    62.269.3
  • Figure of a standing woman
    86.16.1
  • Figure of a reclining woman
    86.16.3
  • Earring
    33.35.45,.46
  • Necklace
    33.35.47
  • Necklace beads
    33.35.48
  • Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief
    50.218
  • Head of a ram
    1981.53
  • Seal amulet in the form of a seated female and modern impression
    1988.380.1
  • Bowl
    49.133.2
  • Bowl
    49.133.3
  • Bowl
    49.133.4
  • Drop-shaped (tanged) pendant seal and modern impression: quadrupeds
    93.17.122
  • Seated female
    1985.84
  • Stamp seal and modern impression: geometric pattern
    1986.311.1
  • Sherd
    1988.323.6
  • Sherd
    1988.323.7
  • Head of a ruler
    47.100.80
  • Clasp with an eagle and its prey
    17.190.2055
  • Stamp seal: standing noble holding a flower
    22.139.41
  • Plate with king hunting rams
    34.33
  • Earring in the form of a three-lobed wineskin
    1995.366
  • Gravestone with funerary banquet
    02.29.1
  • Molded plaque: king or a god carrying a mace
    32.39.2
  • Sickle sword
    11.166.1
  • Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
    32.161.46
  • Necklace pendants and beads
    47.1a-h
  • Head of a male
    1972.96
  • Tribute bearer with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
    60.145.11
  • Human-headed winged bull and winged lion (lamassu)
    32.143.1
  • Relief panel
    32.143.4
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshipper below a canopy flanked by winged genies
    1989.361.1
  • Panel with striding lion
    31.13.1
  • Openwork furniture plaque with two sphinxes
    57.80.4a,b
  • Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees
    17.190.106
  • Headdress
    33.35.3
  • Standing male worshipper
    40.156
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
    41.160.192
  • Statue of Gudea
    59.2
  • Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars
    1988.433.1
  • Eye idol
    1988.323.8
  • Bowl with wheel-cut facets
    59.34
  • Ewer with dancing females within arcades
    67.10a,b

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