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Pottery 'Palace Ware' jar

This is a typical example of 'palace ware'. The fabric or bo…
Sceptre

Leonard Woolley found this sceptre in the largest of the gra…
Set of hematite weights

Apart from beads and seals, hematite was consistently used i…
Silver fluted tumbler

This fluted tumbler comes from the Royal Cemetery at Ur. It …
Silver lyre

This lyre was found in the 'Great Death-Pit', one of the gra…
Statue of Ashurnasirpal II

This statue of King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC) was placed…
Stela of Ashurbanipal

The city of Babylon had been destroyed by the Assyrian king …
Stela of Ashurnasirpal II

This freestanding gypsum monument was erected by King Ashurn…
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V

Stelas were erected inside and outside temples, both within …
Stone cult vessel

This stone vessel dates to the late fourth millennium BC, wh…
Stone mace head

A mace head, fixed to a wooden or metal staff, was an early …
Stone mould

This mould could be used for casting female figurines, pins,…
Stone panel from the Palace of Sargon II (Façade N, no. 24)

This alabaster relief of a charioteer and horse decorated th…
Stone statue of a monkey

Monkeys were not native to Mesopotamia and would have been i…
Stone tablet of Adad-Nirari I

This gypsum slab was found in the Temple of Ashur in the cit…
Stone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina

This stone tablet is a copy of a deed recording the restorat…
Stone vase

This stone vessel was made in the late fourth millennium BC,…
Stone vessel

This fine vessel was discovered by the excavator Leonard Woo…
Stone vessel

This cylindrical vessel, made from a soft stone, was discove…
Stucco column capital

The use of carved or moulded stucco (gypsum plaster) decorat…
Terracotta head of a ewe

Sheep played an important role in the ancient Sumerian econo…
The Blacas Ewer

An inscription describes the craftsman as 'Shuja ibn Mana al…
The Rassam Obelisk

This fragment of stone relief originally formed part of an o…
The Uruk Trough

This trough was found at Uruk, the largest city so far known…
The White Obelisk

This four-sided obelisk was discovered by the excavator Horm…
White and cream calcite (marble) cylinder seal

At the time this seal was made, Uruk was one of the largest …
Dia al-Azzawi, Blessed Tigris, fibre-glass sculpture

This sculpture has been specially created for the exhibition…
The East India House Inscription

After the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC to the armies of Media a…
Gold dinar of Harun al-Rashid

The c Abasid caliph of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid (reigned AD …
Bronze figure

One of the duties of a Mesopotamian king was to care for the…
Circular brick with an inscription of Gudea

This circular brick has a cuneiform inscription of Gudea, th…
Clay foundation peg

Foundation pegs were inserted into the foundations of buildi…
Copper foundation peg

This copper figure of a bull in a reed marsh is a foundation…
Copper frieze

This relief was one of a group of objects found at the small…
Cuneiform tablet recording barley rations

This cuneiform tablet is a record in Sumerian of the distrib…
Cuneiform tablet telling the Epic of Creation

This is one of a series of tall narrow cuneiform tablets tha…
Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Etana

The story told on this tablet centres on Etana, a legendary …
Fragment of a stone plaque depicting Enannatum

This fragment is part of a plaque that was probably original…
Greenstone seal of Hashhamer

This seal is typical of the last century of the third and of…
Ivory plaque depicting a winged sphinx

The carved ivories from Nimrud (9th-8th century BC) are reco…
Leaded bronze belt buckle

The horseman on this belt buckle has his hair arranged in a …
Limestone figure of a bull

This stone figure was made in the late fourth millennium BC,…
Limestone plaque

Square stone plaques with holes through the centre, and carv…
Limestone statue of a woman

Most monumental public art in Mesopotamia was designed to gl…
Limestone statue of a woman

This is a typical figure which was set up in temples to repr…
Queen's Lyre

Leonard Woolley discovered several lyres in the graves in th…
Rein ring of gold and silver

This rein ring is one of several found in the Royal Cemetery…
Stela of Ashurbanipal

One of the duties of a Mesopotamian king was to care for the…
Stone lion's head

This lion's head of white limestone comes from the Temple of…
Stone mace head

Mesopotamian gods are shown brandishing maces in ancient car…
Stone panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III

This alabaster panel was part of the decorative scheme of th…
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib

This panel was one of a group found, out of position, somewh…
Stone statue of Kurlil

This limestone statue was excavated in 1919 besides the ruin…
Terracotta vase

There are many ancient documents referring to a conflict bet…
The 'Ram in a Thicket'

This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonar…
The Sargon Vase

This unique glass jar was discovered in the nineteenth centu…
The Standard of Ur

Leonard Woolley, the excavator at Ur, imagined that it was c…
Coins from the Tigris hoard

The Tigris hoard is named after the River Tigris in southern…
Alabaster jar

The archaeologist Henry Layard discovered this jar, with a l…
Babylonian brick

This was one of a number of items collected by Sir Robert Ke…
Bronze band from the gates of the palace of Shalmaneser III

Tablets inform us that the gates at Balawat (one days march …
Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs

In January 1849 the excavator, Henry Layard, made a remarkab…
Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs

On 5 January 1849 the excavator, Henry Layard, made a remark…
Colossal statue of a winged human-headed bull from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room S)

This is one of a pair of guardian figures set up in the pala…
Condiment tray

This small square platter has nine sections to hold a select…
Copper figure of a bull

This bull was discovered in 1923 by Leonard Woolley at the s…
Fragment of a stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib

Most of the rooms in the state apartments of King Sennacheri…
Inlaid ivory panel of a lioness devouring a boy

This carved ivory panel is one of an almost identical pair w…

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