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Bowl (kalathos) with female figures

This clay kalathos was placed in a tomb at Ialysos on the is…
Painted jar

This painted jar has designs like those found on pottery fro…
Pottery jug in human form

The pale colour of this anthropomorphic (that is, in human f…
Coffee cups

The national drink in Yemen is called qishr . It is made fro…
Water vessel

This unglazed water vessel ( sharbat al-'arus ) traditionall…
Clay jar with red-fired decoration

Neolithic cultures based on agriculture and the use of stone…
Punchong ware maebyong vase

The best quality celadon ware had been produced in the south…
Bucchero ware drinking cup

This elegant drinking-cup was made during the Etruscan Archa…
Ialysos cup with swans and fishes

Mycenaean 'Pictorial Style' vases were produced between abou…
Ceramic vessel in the form of a figure

This figure comes from the so-called Amlash culture of Gilan…
Clay coffin lid

Although this object looks like a mask it is in fact the lid…
Clay model of a sheep's liver

The Babylonians believed that the world was controlled by go…
Clay plaque with inscription

This plaque shows a man wearing the typical Parthian dress o…
Clay plaque showing a banqueter

The plaque shows in miniature a man wearing typical Parthian…
Clay tablet with a cuneiform letter and its envelope

This tablet is one of thousands found at the site of Kültepe…
Cuneiform tablet with schoolwork

Literacy was not widespread in ancient Mesopotamia. Schoolin…
Pottery jar

This is an example of 'Atchana' ware from the site of ancien…
Terracotta figure of a tambourine player

This fired clay female tambourine player comes from a tomb a…
Pot decorated with a boat

The pink colour of the fabric of this vessel is typical of t…
Sealing of Semerkhet

From the earliest times, one of the most common ways of seal…
Incense burners

Incense is an expensive commodity that has been traded and u…
Pottery bowl and wire cover

In traditional, rural Zulu society, labour is strictly divid…
Painted clay figure of Sarvabuddhadakini

In Tibetan Buddhism, dakinis are celestial female beings who…
Clay ground 'Hadra' water-jar (hydria), attributed to the Dromeus Painter

'Hadra' hydriai are named after the Alexandrian cemetery of …
Clay tablets inscribed with records in Linear B script

These tablets, made of unbaked clay, formed part of the exte…
Terracotta model of a merchant ship

Being an island, shipping was essential for the Cypriots. Th…
Brick of Nebuchadnezzar II

Following the defeat of the Assyrian Empire by the Medes and…
Bronze incense burner

This incense burner was made by casting bronze on a clay cor…
Circular brick with an inscription of Gudea

This circular brick has a cuneiform inscription of Gudea, th…
Clay head of a god

The horned headdress shows that this head is meant to repres…
Clay mask

This mask was found in a tomb and was designed to frighten a…
Clay plaque

This figure wears the typical Parthian costume of tunic and …
Cuneiform tablet inscribed with omens

The Babylonians believed that the world was controlled by go…
Cuneiform tablet with observations of Venus

Thanks to Assyrian records, the chronology of Mesopotamia is…
Cuneiform tablet with omens

This tablet is the third of a series of twenty-four called s…
Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II

This clay cylinder was found in the ruins of the city of Bab…
Glazed brick relief panel

This panel is made of polychrome glazed bricks which were fo…
Jar with stamped decoration

Although this vessel was discovered at ancient Borsippa in s…
Record of food supplies

During the Late Prehistoric period administrators developed …
Tablet recording the allocation of beer

The symbol for beer, an upright jar with pointed base, appea…
Terracotta female figurine

This fired clay female figurine comes from a tomb in the ric…
Terracotta plaque

Baked clay plaques like this one, showing an affectionate co…
Set of 12 Delftware plates painted by Sir James Thornhill

Holland was the main centre of production of tin-glazed eart…
The King's Pavement

Clarendon Palace was a popular hunting lodge of the Norman k…
Cooking pots

The types of cooking pot shown here are found in every Iron …
Statuette of a mother-goddess

This statuette was made in a mould from a fine white clay ca…
Tablet recording a gold delivery by a chief eunuch of the Babylonian court

The Babylonian cuneiform inscription on this clay tablet she…
Mud shabti figures

When shabti figures were first placed in tombs, in the Middl…
Painted clay and wood figure of a horse

Astana was a cemetery site along the Northern Silk Route exp…
Portable shrine

Buddhist monks were often on the move, travelling between mo…
White porcelain 'moon jar'

This jar is a magnificent example of the ceramic art of the …
Red-figured water jar (hydria), attributed to the Lipari Painter

The Lipari Painter liked to enliven the traditional black-an…
Ribbed black-glaze jug (oinochoe)

The goddess Hekate was closely connected with Artemis, the h…
Terracotta group of 'knucklebone' (astragalos) players

The two figures play a game similar to the modern game of 'j…
Clay coffin

This is one of three complete coffins excavated at Uruk by W…
Clay foundation peg

Foundation pegs were inserted into the foundations of buildi…
Clay mask of the demon Huwawa

One method for predicting the future in ancient Mesopotamia …
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 …
Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Ishtar's descent to the Underworld

The legend, written in Akkadian, describes how Ishtar, godde…
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (616-609 BC)

This tablet is one of a series that summarises the principal…
Cuneiform tablet with the Atrahasis Epic

The story outlines the structure of the universe according t…
Cylinder of Nabonidus

This clay cuneiform cylinder was discovered in the Temple of…
Cyrus Cylinder

This clay cylinder is inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform with…
Letter from Burnaburiash to Amenhotep IV

This clay tablet is part of a collection of 382 cuneiform do…
Letter from Tushratta to Amenhotep III

This clay tablet is part of a collection of 382 cuneiform do…
Map of the World

This tablet contains both a cuneiform inscription and a uniq…

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