Near-eastern Art

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Bronze lamp in form of lion, near eastern, ca. 600-900 CE

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Copper frieze From the Temple of Ninhursag, Tell al-‘Ubaid, southern Iraq, around 2600 BC

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Alabaster statue of a male priest, from the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk. Artist unknown; ca. 3

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Head of a ruler.  Artist unknown; ca. 2300-2000 BCE (Early Bronze Age).  From Iran or Iraq; now in t

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An Assyrian soldier conducts captives in a boat.  Gypsum alabaster relief, artist unknown; ca. 668-6

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Mesopotamian statuette (alabaster, gold, terracotta, and rubies) of a nude woman, possibly the godde

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Canaanite scarab (steatite) featuring a walking lion design.  Artist unknown; ca. 1648-1539 BCE (Egy

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Unidentified Mesopotamian deity, possibly the solar deity Shamash, sitting on a stool and holding th

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Proto-Elamite statuette of a horned, striding figure.  Artist unknown; ca. 3000-2800 BCE.  Now in th

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Assyrian lamassu from the Throne Room (Room B) of the North-West Palace at Nimrud (present-day Iraq)

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Ancient Mesopotamian terracotta relief depicting a worker using an adze to cut a piece of a chariot.

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Ancient Mesopotamian stamp seal (carved marble) in the form of a reclining calf.  Artist unknown; ca

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Pair of basket-shaped hair ornaments from ancient Mesopotamia.  Artist unknown; ca. 2000 BCE (Isin-L

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Star tile with a phoenix.  Artist unknown; early 14th century.  From Iran (probably Kashan now in th

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Applique in the shape of a lion’s head, from Achaemenid Persia.  Artist unknown; 6th to 4th cent. BC

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A pair of Assyrian winged deities, carved in gypsum.  Artist unknown; reign of Ashurbanipal II (883-

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Limestone cylinder-seal from Mesopotamia, depicting the worship of the sun-god Shamash.  Artist and

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Ancient Mesopotamian baked-clay plaque, depicting two bull-men holding a palm trunk topped by a sun-

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Limestone head of Gudea (r. 2144-2124 BCE), king of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.  From souther

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Bronze head of a bull, originally attached to a cauldron rim, from the Iron Age Armenian civilizatio

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