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A lion attacking a deer, stencilled scene of découpage paper shapes
'Adam and Eve' cylinder seal
Agate cylinder seal
Alabaster 'Eye Idols'
Alabaster head
Alabaster jar
'Ali Omar Ermes, the letter kaf, ink on paper
Altar frieze
Amulet with a figure of Lamashtu
Aragonite (shell) cylinder seal with a contest scene
Astrolabic quadrant, made by Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Mizzi
Babylonian brick
Bacile decorato con base, da Iznik
Back cover of a bookbinding
Backscratcher
Basalt door
Basalt door jamb
Basalt lion head
Basalt relief of a gazelle
Basalt relief showing a storm-god
Basalt stela showing the goddess Kubaba
Basalt tombstone of cIsa b. Ahmad al-cAkki
Beads and pendants
Bitumen boat model
Black serpentinite seal (modern impression)
Blue chalcedony cylinder seal
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Boundary stone (kudurru)
Brass astrolabe with silver inlay
Brass basin inlaid with silver and gold
Brass belt-clasp
Brass belt-clasp
Brass candlestick inlaid with silver and gold
Brass celestial globe
Brass geomantic instrument, made by Muhammad ibn Khutlukh al-Mawsili
Brass lamp on a stand
Brass tankard
Brick of Nebuchadnezzar II
Bridge-spouted jug on tripod stand
Bronze altar to Rahmaw
Bronze arrowhead of Ada
Bronze axe-head
Bronze band from the gates of the palace of Shalmaneser III
Bronze band from the gates of the palace of Shalmaneser III
Bronze bowl
Bronze bowl
Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs
Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs
Bronze bowl with Egyptian motifs
Bronze ceremonial axe head inlaid with silver
Bronze door-slab
Bronze female figurine
Bronze figure
Bronze figure of a god
Bronze figure of a Sasanian king
Bronze figure of a winged bull
Bronze figure of Baal
Bronze figure of Ba'alat Gebal
Bronze figurine of a horse and rider
Bronze figurine of a warrior, probably a deity
Bronze figurine of the god Harpokrates
Bronze fitting in the form of a seated figure
Bronze furniture attachment
Bronze furniture fitting in the shape of a lion
Bronze hand
Bronze harness ring
Bronze head of a man
Bronze head of Pazuzu
Bronze helmet
Bronze horse-bit with decorated cheek-pieces
Bronze incense burner
Bronze lion's foot
Bronze model of a city wall
Bronze oil lamp with a leaping ibex
Bronze pin decorated with an image of a goddess
Bronze shield-boss
Bronze standard finial
Bronze statuette of a bull
Bronze sword
Bronze tankard
Bronze weight in the form of a lion
Bronze weight in the form of a lion
Burial urn
Calcite (limestone) cylinder seal
Calcite funerary head
Calcite gravestone showing a standing woman
Calcite incense burner
Calcite incense burner showing a camel rider
Calcite jar
Calcite panel with bull’s head
Calcite relief with a portrait of Ghalilat
Calcite relief with the head of an oryx
Calcite statue of a seated woman
Calcite statue of a standing female figure
Carnelian cylinder seal of Mushezib-Ninurta
Carnelian seal stone of Vehdin-Shapur
Carnelian stamp seal
Carved ivory depicting a woman at a window
Carved jade terrapin
Carved limestone stela with a figure of a god
Carved stone inscription of Jalal al-Din Khwarazm-Shah
Carved stone lintel
Carved stone slab (stela) with a standing woman
Cast brass pen-box made by Mahmud ibn Sunqur
Cast silver statuette from the Oxus treasure
Cast silver statuette of a bearded man, from the Oxus treasure
Ceramic bowl with Aramaic magic inscription
Ceramic bowl with glazed relief
Ceramic tombstone of Jalal al-Din cAbd al-Malik
Ceramic vessel in the form of a figure
Ceremonial gold scabbard from the Oxus treasure
Chalcedony cylinder seal
Chalcedony cylinder seal
Chalcedony cylinder seal
Chalcedony cylinder seal
Chalcedony cylinder seal
Chalcedony pendant
Chalcedony stamp seal
Child's diadem
Chinese style ceramic dish from Iran
Chinese style Iranian dish with dandy
Chlorite double bowl
Circular brick with an inscription of Gudea
Clay coffin
Clay coffin lid
Clay foundation peg
Clay head of a god
Clay mask
Clay mask of the demon Huwawa
Clay model of a sheep's liver
Clay plaque
Clay plaque showing a banqueter
Clay plaque with inscription
Clay tablet with a cuneiform letter and its envelope
Colossal statue of a lion
Colossal statue of a winged human-headed bull from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room S)
Colossal statue of a winged lion from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B)
Colossal winged bull from the Palace of Sargon II
Colourless glass flask
Commemorative stone stela
Condiment tray
Copper axe
Copper figure from Jezzine
Copper figure holding basket
Copper figure of a bull
Copper foundation peg
Copper frieze
Copper frieze from temple
Copper statue
Copper statue of Lamma
Copper vessel with silver wire
Crushed skull and head-dress
Crushed skull of a soldier with a copper helmet
Cuneiform tablet inscribed with omens
Cuneiform tablet recording barley rations
Cuneiform tablet telling the Epic of Creation
Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Etana
Cuneiform tablet telling the legend of Ishtar's descent to the Underworld
Cuneiform tablet with observations of Venus
Cuneiform tablet with omens
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (605-594 BC)
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Babylonian Chronicle (616-609 BC)
Cuneiform tablet with part of the Nabonidus Chronicle (556-530s BC)
Cuneiform tablet with schoolwork
Cuneiform tablet with the Atrahasis Epic
Cylinder of Nabonidus
Cylinder of Nebuchadnezzar II
Cylinder seal
Cylinder seal of Pu-abi
Cyrus Cylinder
Decorated bronze shield
Decorated footed basin
Decorative roundel with a bearded face
Deep silver bowl
Dish with stamped decoration
Dolomite (magnesian limestone) cylinder seal
Earthenware bowl with kufic inscription
Electrum vessel
Embossed ornament in the form of a lion-griffin, from the Oxus treasure
Engraved sheet brass tray, inlaid with silver
Ewer with dragon-headed spout
Faience mask
Fired steatite cylinder seal
Fluted glass bottle
Fluted silver drinking horn (rhyton) with partial gilding
Foundation figure of Ur-Nammu
Fragment of a pottery vessel
Fragment of a stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib
Fragment of a stone plaque depicting Enannatum
Fragment of a stone stele dedicated by Itur-Ashdum
Fragment of decorated linen, known as tiraz
Fragment of gold belt
Fragment of pottery vessel with snake decoration
Fragments of a carved stone box
Fragments of a yellowish glass flask
Fragments of wall-paintings from the harem baths at Jawsaq al-Khaqani
Fritware bowl, painted with an enthroned ruler and his attendants
Funerary bust showing a deceased couple
Funerary monument of the priest Tibol
Garnet cylinder seal showing Ishtar
Gilded silver pieces from a belt
Gilded silver plate
Gilded silver vase
Glass beaker with gold and red enamel
Glass cylinder seal
Glass jar
Glass vessel (amphoriskos)
Glazed amphora
Glazed brick relief panel
Glazed terracotta tile
Gold and lapis lazuli beads
Gold and silver horn-shaped drinking cup
Gold belt buckle with an eagle and goat
Gold bowl
Gold bracelet or diadem
Gold cup
Gold earrings
Gold earrings
Gold figures of deities
Gold figurine of a god
Gold griffin-headed armlet from the Oxus treasure
Gold head from the Oxus treasure
Gold jug from the Oxus treasure
Gold masks
Gold model chariot from the Oxus treasure
Gold necklace
Gold ornament
Gold pendant from the Tell el-cAjjul hoard: a fertility goddess, probably Astarte
Gold pendant inlaid with jewels
Gold pendant with inset enamel decoration
Gold pin with a carnelian head
Gold plaque from the Oxus treasure
Gold strainer for beer or wine
Gold strip fragments with coloured stone inlays
Gold terminal in the form of a bull's head
Gold-hilted sword in a gold scabbard
Granite weight in the form of a duck
Green blown-glass rose water sprinkler
Green chalcedony cylinder seal
Green glass huqqa base
Green sparry calcite seal
Greenstone seal
Greenstone seal of Adda
Greenstone seal of Hashhamer
Grey and white marble jar
Gypsum head of a man
Gypsum statue of a man
Gypsum statue of a woman
Gypsum tile
Haematite seal
Head of Pazuzu
Headdress and necklace of gold, lapis lazuli and cornelian
Hematite cylinder seal
Hematite cylinder seal of Habde-Adad
Hematite seal
High-spouted brass ewer
Human figurines
Humayun's garden party, a painting in gouache and gold on cotton
Hump-backed pottery bull
Il Gioco Reale di Ur
Inlaid ivory panel of a lioness devouring a boy
Inscribed bronze ass
Inscribed cast bronze tablet
Inscribed glazed wall plaque
Ivory chess pieces
Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a duck
Ivory cosmetic box in the shape of a fish
Ivory figure of a griffin-headed demon
Ivory figurine
Ivory hand
Ivory head of a lion
Ivory plaque depicting a winged sphinx
Jade cup of Ulugh Beg
Jade thumb-ring
Jar with stamped decoration
Jasper cylinder seal
Kilga, support for a water jar
Knife
La tavoletta del Diluvio, che narra parte dell’epopea di Gilgamesh
Lachish Letter I
Lachish Letter II
Lacquer chest with weights and scales, for weighing jewellery
Lacquer pen-case, signed by the artist Ashraf ibn Riza
Lady Layard's jewellery
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal of Sin-ishmeanni
Lapis lazuli cylinder seal-1
Lapis lazuli stamp seal
Large pottery jar
Leaded bronze belt buckle
Leaded bronze figure of a winged beast
Leather bookbinding with stamped and gilded decoration
Letter from Burnaburiash to Amenhotep IV
Letter from Tushratta to Amenhotep III
Lidded bowl
Light green glass bowl
Lime plaster statues
Limestone cup
Limestone cylinder seal
Limestone figure of a bull
Limestone figurine
Limestone funerary portrait of a priest
Limestone memorial bust of Tamma
Limestone ossuary
Limestone ossuary
Limestone plaque
Limestone relief of the god Shadrafa
Limestone relief panel, showing Kai Khosrau
Limestone sculpture of an ibex
Limestone statue from the shrine of Hendursag
Limestone statue of a woman
Limestone statue of a woman
Limestone stela with a dedication to Baal
Limestone stela with images of the goddess Tanit
Limestone tripod bowl
Lion weight
Lion's head
Lustre painted bowl
Lustre-painted ceramic tiles
Lustre-painted pottery jar
Manohar (attributed to), Emperor Jahangir weighing his son Khurram in gold, an album-painting in gouache on paper
Manohar, Emperor Jahangir receiving his two sons, an album-painting in gouache on paper
Map of the World
Marble panel from the cenotaph of Muhammad b. Fatik Ashmuli
Mir Afzal of Tun, A reclining woman and her lapdog, a painting
Miskin (attributed to), The crow addresses the animals, a mounted miniature in gouache on paper
Modello di cocchio in oro dal tesoro dell’Oxus
Mosaic column
Mosque lamp
Mosque lamp-
Moulded clay figure
Moulded stucco plaque
Muhammad Qasim (attributed to), A picnic at night, a drawing
Necklaces of faience beads and pendants
Objects from the Nihavand find
Obsidian bowl
Ossuary in the form of a house
Ostrich egg
Ostrich egg jar
Page from a manuscript of Dioscorides' De Materia Medica
Painted beaker
Painted bowl
Painted jar
Painted jar
Painted jar
Painted limestone incense burner
Painted pottery bowl and plate
Painted terracotta figurine of a woman
Painted vessel with bridge-spout
Painting of a horse and groom, inscribed ‘Riza drew it’
Painting of an old pilgrim by an anonymous artist
Painting of Shah Abbas, Khan Alam and a page
Pair of earrings
Part of a hoard of silver currency
Part of a stone sill from a doorway in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib
Pen-box
Pendant from the Tell el-cAjjul hoard
Peter Mundy, A briefe relation of the Turckes, their Kings, Emperors or Grandsigneurs, their conquests, religion, custom
Pilgrim bottle
Pillar figurine
Pink chalcedony cylinder seal
Plastered skull
Polychrome glazed jars
Portrait of a courtier, an album painting in gouache on paper
Portrait of a young page reading
Portrait of Shah Abbas hawking
Portrait of Shah Abbas I of Iran, attributed to Bishn Das
Portrait of Sultan Ibrahim cAdil Shah II, an album painting in gouache on paper
Pottery double vessel
Pottery jar
Pottery jar
Pottery jug
Pottery jug
Pottery juglet
Pottery 'Khabur Ware' jar
Pottery lidded jar of the sort used to store the Dead Sea Scrolls
Pottery 'Palace Ware' jar
Pouring vessel, by the craftsman Mahmu Micmar-i Yazdi
Queen's Lyre
Record of food supplies
Red burnished wine jug
Rein ring of gold and silver
Relief cut glass tumbler
Riza-yi 'Abbasi, Seated calligrapher, a drawing
Rock crystal bottle in the form of a lion
'Scarlet Ware' jar
Sceptre
Serpentinite cylinder seal
Serpentinite stamp-cylinder seal with monsters and animal heads
Set of hematite weights
Shell plaque
Shell plaque-1
Shirazeh Houshiary, Round Dance, a series of 5 prints, etching and aquatint
Silver beaker
Silver beaker-1
Silver bowl
Silver bowl
Silver bowl
Silver bowl
Silver bowl with applied gold figures
Silver bowl with scenes in relief
Silver bull
Silver dish
Silver dish
Silver fluted tumbler
Silver ingot
Silver jar
Silver 'lamp'
Silver 'lamp'
Silver lyre
Silver pin
Silver plate
Silver plate showing Shapur II
Silver scabbard
Silver two-handled cup
Silver-gilt dish
Silver-headed iron pin
Slip-painted earthenware bowl
Slip-painted pottery bowl, with an archer on horseback
Spherical brass incense burner
Spouted jug with dragon handle
Statue of Ashurnasirpal II
Statue of Idrimi
Steatite bowl decorated with a lion
Steatite jar
Steel peacock
Stela of Ashurbanipal
Stela of Ashurbanipal
Stela of Ashurnasirpal II
Stela of Nabonidus
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V
Stone basin
Stone bowl
Stone cult vessel
Stone figure of an attendant god
Stone figurine
Stone funerary bust of Aqmat
Stone gable-shaped seal
Stone head of a woman
Stone jar and lid
Stone lamp in the shape of a shell
Stone lion's head
Stone mace head
Stone mace head
Stone mace head
Stone mould
Stone mould
Stone panel from the Central Palace of King Tiglath-pileser III
Stone panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III
Stone panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III
Stone panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-pileser III
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room E, no. 13)
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room H, no. 7)
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room H, nos. 7-9)
Stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room L, nos. 9-13)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Court D, no. 7)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, no. 30)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, panel 17 bottom)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, panel 17 top)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 19)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 20)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 3)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 7)
Stone panel from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room I)
Stone panel from the Palace of Sargon II (Façade N, no. 24)
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Court 6)
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Court 6, no. 64)
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 28, Panel 9)
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, no. 10)
Stone panel from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, no. 7)
Stone panels from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Stone panels from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room S, nos. 13-18)
Stone panels from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room G, nos. 2-3)
Stone panels from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 28, nos. 7-9)
Stone panels from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, nos. 14-16)
Stone panels from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 36, nos. 8-10)
Stone prism of Esarhaddon
Stone relief from Persepolis showing a servant
Stone relief from the Apadana (audience hall) at Persepolis
Stone relief from the Apadana (audience hall) at Persepolis
Stone relief from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room B, Panel 10)
Stone relief from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II (Room Z)
Stone relief from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib
Stone relief from the South-West Palace of Sennacherib (Room 32)
Stone relief from the throne room of Ashurnasirpal II
Stone relief of a lion-hunt from the palace of King Kapara
Stone relief of a slinger from the palace of King Kapara
Stone relief of a soldier on a horse from the palace of King Kapara
Stone relief of an archer from the palace of King Kapara
Stone relief showing a charioteer
Stone relief showing a funerary banquet
Stone relief showing a sphinx
Stone seal
Stone statue of a man
Stone statue of a monkey
Stone statue of a woman
Stone statue of Kurlil
Stone stela
Stone stela showing an Aramaean king
Stone tablet of Adad-Nirari I
Stone tablet of Nabu-apla-iddina
Stone vase
Stone vessel
Stone vessel
Stonepaste bottle, painted in lustre with seated figures and prowling animals
Stonepaste cup in the shape of a harpy
Stonepaste 'Golden Horn' bottle
Stone-paste laqabi dish, decorated with a harpy
Stucco column capital
Sultan Muhammad (attributed to), Rustam sleeps while Rakhsh fights off a lion, a painting in gouache on paper
Tablet of Shamash
Tablet recording a gold delivery by a chief eunuch of the Babylonian court
Tablet recording the allocation of beer
Tankard decorated with the signs of the zodiac and the planet Lords
Tartaruga scolpita in giada
'Tell el-Yahudiyeh ware' juglet
Terracotta female figurine
Terracotta figure of a tambourine player
Terracotta figure of a woman suckling a child
Terracotta figure of an animal
Terracotta head of a ewe
Terracotta mould of a man on horseback
Terracotta plaque
Terracotta plaque of a dragon
Terracotta plaque showing a bull-man holding a post
Terracotta plaque with an erotic scene
Terracotta statue of a woman
Terracotta vase
The Blacas Ewer
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
The Blau monuments
The death of the hero Rustam and his horse Rakhsh, a painting in gouache on paper
The Dying Lion, a stone panel from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal
The East India House Inscription
The Flood Tablet, relating part of the Epic of Gilgamesh
The 'Garden Party' relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal (Room S)
The prophet Elijah rescuing Hamza's nephew, Prince Nur ad-Dahr, a painting in gouache on cotton
The Queen of Sheba (Bilqis) and the hoopoe, Solomon's messenger, a drawing
The 'Queen of the Night' Relief
The 'Ram in a Thicket'
The Rassam Obelisk
The Royal Game of Ur
The Sargon Vase
The Standard of Ur
The Taylor Prism
The Uruk Trough
The Vaso Vescovali
The White Obelisk
The Wonders of Creation and the Oddities of Existence, a page from a manuscript
Tripod-footed painted ceramic vessel
Two jade bases for a huqqa pipe
Two-handed black burnished cup
Underglaze-painted tiles
Whetstone with bronze handle
White and cream calcite (marble) cylinder seal
White calcite (marble) cylinder seal
White calcite (marble) cylinder seal with a combat scene
White marble anthropoid coffin
Winged bull with human torso and head and clasped hands
Wooden table from a tomb
Yellowish glass flask

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