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Reed wall (zirb) from a bedouin tent

The reed wall ( zirb ) was used to create a draught-free are…
Gold dinar of caliph Abd al-Malik

The reform involved substituting any images on the coins for…
Gold dinar with a standing caliph

The centre of this coin has an image which may represent the…
Bronze female figurine

This bronze figure forms a stand which would originally have…
Glazed amphora

There was considerable regional variation in the types of ce…
Lidded bowl

This is one of a large group of fifteenth- and early sixteen…
Lustre-painted pottery jar

This bulbous jar was probably for storage, rather than decor…
Pilgrim bottle

The shape of this bottle, flat on one side and rounded on th…
Steatite bowl decorated with a lion

This steatite bowl may have been used for burning incense. I…
Stone-paste laqabi dish, decorated with a harpy

Laqabi ceramics are decorated with an incised pattern under …
Quern stone used for making flour

This quern stone, used for grinding grain to make flour, was…
Bronze figure of Baal

This figure is typical of bronzes from Syria in the second h…
Silver chalice from the Kaper Koraon treasure

A few years after this chalice was first seen it was offered…
Gold and silver horn-shaped drinking cup

This silver and gold vessel was purchased by the archaeologi…
Pottery 'Khabur Ware' jar

Khabur ware is wheel-made pottery with monochrome painted de…
Stone relief of a soldier on a horse from the palace of King Kapara

This relief of a soldier on a horse comes from the Aramaean …
Silver dirham of Saladin

Salah al-Din Yusuf, popularly known as Saladin (1138-1193) i…
Conical glass bowl

The 'slumping process' by which bowls such as this were made…
The Barber Cup

This remarkable one-handled cup was carved from a single pie…
The Crawford Cup

This cantharus (goblet) was carved from a block of fluorspar…
Altar frieze

This frieze assembled from different materials is an example…
Astrolabic quadrant, made by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Mizzi

This instrument is signed by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Mizzi, th…
Basalt door

This door is carved in imitation of a wooden door studded wi…
Funerary bust showing a deceased couple

From the first century BC the city of Palmyra, in the Syrian…
Funerary monument of the priest Tibol

This is a funerary monument from a tomb outside the wealthy …
Limestone funerary portrait of a priest

Palmyra, a city in the Syrian desert, grew rich from the car…
Limestone memorial bust of Tamma

The inscription names this woman as Tamma, daughter of Shams…
Limestone relief of the god Shadrafa

This relief is one of the earliest dated monuments found at …
Limestone tripod bowl

This limestone tripod vessel may have been an incense burner…
Painted terracotta figurine of a woman

Figurines like this from the Halaf period (about 5300-4800 B…
Pottery juglet

This juglet, with its applied figurine, is pierced at the ba…
Hedwig glass beaker

So far 14 have been recorded, all of the same squat shape wi…
Slip-painted pottery bowl, with an archer on horseback

This is a striking image of an archer drawing his bow and ar…
Spherical brass incense burner

Highly-scented incense was a valued commodity in medieval Is…
Stone funerary bust of Aqmat

According to the Aramaic inscription, the woman portrayed he…
Stone gable-shaped seal

This period saw an increase in permanent settlements based o…
Stone relief of a lion-hunt from the palace of King Kapara

This relief comes from the Aramaean city of Guzana (modern T…
Stone relief of an archer from the palace of King Kapara

This relief of an archer comes from the Aramaean city of Guz…
Stone relief showing a funerary banquet

Palmyra, an oasis city in the Syrian desert, grew rich from …
Stone stela showing an Aramaean king

This unusual stela was found by J.L. Porter, the British con…
Yellowish glass flask

This small glass flask has a spherical gold-decorated body a…
Fragments of a yellowish glass flask

These are the fragments of a gilded glass flask. The gold wa…
Silver tetradrachm of Augustus

Considerations of profit apart, the ancient Romans tended no…
Alabaster 'Eye Idols'

Tell Brak is the modern name of a huge site in north Mesopot…
Alabaster head

Most Mesopotamian buildings were made of mud brick. Over tim…
Letter from T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) to Leonard Woolley

Between 1911 and 1914 a British Museum expedition carried ou…
Terracotta alabastron with the top in the form of a female head and bust

This perfume bottle reproduces in clay a type of vessel orig…
Brass basin inlaid with silver and gold

Large basins like this were among the most prestigious of th…
Brass candlestick inlaid with silver and gold

Small candlesticks of this type were made in some quantity i…
Brass geomantic instrument, made by Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al-Mawsili

This unique instrument 'calculates' patterns of dots with di…
Bronze bowl

This very fragmentary bronze platter was discovered in the l…
Bronze bowl

On 5 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…
Bronze figurine of a warrior, probably a deity

This bronze figurine wears a broad belt fastened in front wi…
Engraved sheet brass tray, inlaid with silver

This silver-inlaid brass tray may have been exported to Euro…
Glass triple-bodied bottle

It is comparatively easy to make a bottle with a double body…
Statue of Idrimi

This extraordinary statue represents Idrimi, a king of Alala…
Stone relief of a slinger from the palace of King Kapara

This relief of a sling thrower comes from the Aramaean city …
Glass gaming counters

These four glass counters are a selection from twenty-four t…
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (605-594 BC)

This tablet is one of a series that summarises the principal…
Fragment of a stone stele dedicated by Itur-Ashdum

The cuneiform inscription states that a high official called…
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence, a page from a manuscript

The archangel Gabriel is an important figure to Muslims, as …

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