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Altar of Tukulti-Ninurta I (Cult Pedestal of the God Nusku)
c. 1244-1208 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

   

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Amulet with a Figure of Lamashtu
c. 800 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Ancient Mesopotamia

 

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Architectural Decoration from the Temple of Inanna
c. 1500-1400 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

     

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Ashur

 

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Ashurbanipal Rebuilding Babylon
c. 650 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Assyria

 

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Babylon
7th-6th Century BCE

   

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Babylonian Map of the World
6th c. BCE, British Museum, London

   

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Base of Vase from the the Diyala Region
c. 3000 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

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Beaded Necklace
c. 1400-1200 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

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Beaded Necklace with Pendants
c. 2000 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
erected 825 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Blau monuments
c. 3000-2900 BCE, British Museum, London

   

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Bowl
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

   

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Bowl with Incised Decoration
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Bronze Bowl with Star Motif
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Bronze Lion Weights
c. 726-722 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Bull Head Lyre (Great Lyre)
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

         

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Bull-Man
c. 2900-2650 BCE

 

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Caillou Michaux
c. 1099-1082 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Chaplet of Gold Leaves
c. 2600-2500 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Citadel and palace complex of Sargon II
c. 721-706 BCE, Khorsabad

     

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Composite Figure of a Female Orant
c. 2600 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

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Cone with Cuneiform Inscription recording Urukagina's Reform
c. 2400-2300 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Copper Frieze from Tell Ubaid
c. 2500 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Core-Formed Bottle
c. 1300-1200 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Cosmetic Box Lid with a Lion Attacking a Goat
c. 2500-2400 BCE, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Cover of a Lamp with Intertwined Snakes
c. 2200-2100 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Cow and Calf from Nimrud
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Cuff
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Cult Vase decorated with Symbols of Ishtar
c. 1900-1800 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Cult Vessel in the form of a Tower
c. 1900-1800 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Cuneiform Legal Tablet and Case
c. 1950-1836 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

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Cuneiform Tablet
c. 2000 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Cuneiform Tablet of the Epic of Gilgamesh
c. 650 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Cuneiform Tablet with a Ration List
c. 3200-2900 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Cuneiform Tablet with depiction of a Ziggurat
7th c BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Cuneiform Tablet with Incised Bull
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

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Cuneiform Tablet with Manual for Glass Manufacture
c. 1400-1100 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Cylinder Seal
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Cylinder Seal
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Cylinder Seal
c. 2600-2500 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

     

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Cylinder Seal of Ibni-sharrum, Scribe of Shar-kali-sharri
c. 2183-2159 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

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Cylinder seal: Hero protects flock
c. 2,550-2,400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, Philadelphia

 

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Cylindrical Vase
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Dagger
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Daric
4th c BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

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Disk of Enheduanna
c. 2300-2184 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Duck-Shaped Weight with Cuneiform Inscription
c. 1300-1200 BCE

 

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Eagle-Headed Winged Deity
c. 865 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Eagle-Headed Winged Deity
c. 883-859 BCE, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

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Early Mesopotamian City-States

 

Mesopotamian
East India House Inscription
c. 605-562 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Electrum Tumbler
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Empire of Sargon the Great
c. 2334-2279 BCE

 

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Etemenanki Ziggurat at Babylon
c. 626-562 BCE, Babylon

 

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Excavating at Ur in 1937
1937, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Expansion of the Assyrian Empire between 900 and 700 BCE
c. 900-700 BCE

 

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Eye Idol
c. 3300-3000 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Face for a Composite Figure
c. 2550-2250 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Female Figure wearing a Tall Headdress
c. 2550-2250 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Female Figure with Clasped Hands
c. 2097-1989 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Female Votive Figure
c. 2550-2400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Female Votive Figure
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Flood Tablet
c. 700-600 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Foundation Figure of Lugalkisalsi
c. 2400-2250 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

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Foundation Peg representing a Kneeling God, inscribed with the Name of Gudea of Lagash
c. 2120 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Foundation Peg with Bull and Palm Fronds
c. 2130 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Foundation Statuette inscribed in the Name of Ur-Nammu
c. 2150 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Fragment of a Statue of Ur-Ningirsu
c. 2080 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

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Fragment of a Stele with Combat Scenes
c. 2244-2236 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Fragment of a Victory Stele
c. 2300-2245 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Fragmentary Plaque with Bull Hunt
c. 800-700 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Fragmentary Stele of Gudea
c. 2090 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

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Frieze with Inlays of Cows
c. 2400-2250 BCE, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Game Board and Gaming Pieces
c. 2550-2400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Goddess with Flowing Vase
c. 1800-1700 BCE

   

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Gold Vessel in the form of an Ostrich Egg
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Guardian Lion
c. 1900-1800 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Gudea of Lagash
c. 2100 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Head of a Bearded God
c. 1900-1800 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Head of a Bearded Man
c. 725-700 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Head of a Bull
c. 2550-2250 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

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Head of a Female Worshipper
c. 2600-2500 BCE, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem

 

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Head of a Lion from Nimrud
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

   

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Head of a Man
c. 2000-1600 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Head of a Man (Akkadian Ruler)
c. 2,300-2,200 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

     

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Head of a Markhor Goat
c. 2550-2250 BCE, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Head of a Ruler
c. 2097-1989 BCE, Oriental Institute, Chicago

 

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Head of a Woman with Inlaid Jewelry
c. 1500-1000 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

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Head of an Akkadian Ruler
c. 2300-2200 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

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Head of Gudea
c. 2120 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Head of Pazuzu
c. 668-627 BCE, private collection

 

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Headdress of Puabi
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

   

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Helmet of King Meskalamdug
c. 2500 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Hero Subduing a Lion
c. 721-705 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Impressions of Akkadian Cylinder Seals
c. 2300-2200 BCE

 

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Impressions of Cylinder Seals
c. 720-700 BCE

   

Mesopotamian
Inlaid Bull Statuette
c. 2000 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Inlaid Chair Back from Fort Shalmaneser
c. 800-700 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

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Inlaid Panel from a Lyre
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Philadelphia

 

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Inlay of a Man Holding a Walking Stick
c. 2550-2250 BCE

 

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Ishtar Gate
c. 605-562 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

               

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Ivory Handle with Two Women
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Jar
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Kneeling Worshipper
c. 1760 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Kudurru of Marduk-appla-iddina II
c. 750-700 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Kudurru of Nazi Maruttash
c. 1171-1159 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

     

Mesopotamian
Kudurru of Nebuchadnezzar I
c. 1125-1104 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Lamassu (Human-headed winged lion)
883-859 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

   

Mesopotamian
Libation Vase of Gudea
c. 2150 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Lion Hunt Stele
c. 3100-3000 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Lion Relief from the Processional Way at Babylon
c. 605-562 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Mesopotamian
Lion-Headed Eagle Pendant
c. 2400-2250 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
List of Fields and their Yields in Barley
c. 2039 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Mace Head dedicated for the Life of Enannatum
c. 2400-2250 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Mesopotamian
Male Figure
3rd millennium BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Male Votive Figure
c. 2600-2500 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Man Leading Horses
c. 721-705 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Mask of the Demon Humbaba
c. 1800-1600 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Model Chariot
c. 2500-1800 BCE, British Museum, London

 

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Model of a House
c. 2900-2750 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Mouflon Genius
c. 3000 BCE, Brooklyn Museum

 

Mesopotamian
Naked Orant
c. 2600 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Nanna Ziggurat at Ur
c. 2,100-2,050 BCE, Ur

 

Mesopotamian
The Near East at the end of the third millennium BCE

 

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The Near East during the Akkadian period

 

Mesopotamian
The Near East during the Late Uruk and Early Dynastic Periods

 

Mesopotamian
New Babylonian Empire
c. 625-539 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Nineveh City Walls
c. 700 BCE, Nineveh

   

Mesopotamian
Nubian Tribute Bearer
c. 800-700 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Onyx Sceptre
after 500 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Oracular Fish
c. 592 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Orant Figure
c. 2400 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Orant Figure from Khafaje
c. 2650 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

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Orant Offering a Kid
c. 2000 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Painted Sherd with an Archer on Horseback
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Painted Tile showing a Chariot
c. 890-884 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Painted Vessel
c. 2800 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Painting of a Warship from the Governor's Palace at Til Barsip
c. 744-727 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Paintings from the Palace of Zimrilim at Mari
c. 1800-1700 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

       

Mesopotamian
Pair of Lions from Nuzi
c. 1500-1350 BCE, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge

 

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Pazuzu
c. 1000-500 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque dedicated by a Queen of Umma
c. 2550-2250 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque Dedicating Property to a Nabu Temple
c. 721-705 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque Fragment with Chariot Scene
c. 2650-2550 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque from Palace Gate of Shalmaneser III
c. 858-824 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque from Ur with Libation Scenes
c. 2500-2400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque of Ur-Nanshe
c. 2550-2400 B.C., Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque of Ur-Nanshe and his Family
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque with a God
c. 1900-1600 BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque with a Man holding a Tree
c. 800-700 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque with Banqueters and Musicians
c. 2550-2400 BCE, Oriental Institute, Chicago

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque with Female Deity and Tree of Life
c. 2600-2300 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque with Goat Motif
c. 2600-2400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque with Harpist
c. 2000-1500 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

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Plaque with Lion-Headed Eagle and Human-Headed Bull
c. 2400-2250 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

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Plaque with Nude Goddess (Queen of the Night Relief)
c. 1850-1760 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Plaque with Winged Creatures and Stylized Trees
c. 800-600 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Polychrome Tile Fragment from Nimrud
c. 870 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Pouring Vessel with Relief Decoration
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Priest King
c. 3300 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Prism with Foundation Insription of Tiglath-Pileser I
1109 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Processional Way of Nebuchadnezzar II
c. 605-562 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

   

Mesopotamian
Pyxis with Musicians, Trees, and a Goddess
c. 900-700 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Ram in a Thicket
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

   

Mesopotamian
Recumbent Bull
c. 2500-2400 BCE, Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem

 

Mesopotamian
Recumbent Human-Headed Bull
c. 2097-1989 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Recumbent Human-Headed Bull or Bison
c. 2300-2159 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Rein-Ring decorated with the Figure of an Ass
c. 2600 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Relief Fragment of Cavalrymen Crossing a Stream
c. 704-681 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Relief Fragment with a Battle Scene
c. 700-695 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Relief from Nineveh with War Chariot
c. 750-700 BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Relief from Temple of Ishtar in Nineveh with Royal Guards
c. 700-650 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Relief of Iddin-Sin, King of Simurrum
c. 2100-2000 BCE, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

 

Mesopotamian
Reliefs from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal at Nineveh
c. 650 BCE, British Museum, London

             

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Reliefs from the North-West Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
c. 875-860 BCE, British Museum, London

                   

Mesopotamian
Reliefs from the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad
c. 710 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Ritual Vase decorated with Animals in Relief
c. 3000 BC, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Royal Inscription of King Nebuchadnezzar II
c. 604-562 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Royal Male Worshipper carrying a Sacrificial Goat
c. 2450 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Royal Standard of Ur
c. 2600 BCE, British Museum, London

   

Mesopotamian
The Sargon Vase
c. 721-705 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Scarlet Ware Vase from Khafaje
c. 2800 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Scarlet Ware Vessel
c. 2800 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

   

Mesopotamian
Seated Couple
c. 2550-2250 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Seated Figure of the Singer Ur-Nanshe
c. 2550-2250 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Seated Statue of Gudea
c. 2150-2100 BCE, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 

Mesopotamian
Seated Statue of Gudea with an Architectural Plan
c. 2090 BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

   

Mesopotamian
Servants Carrying Furniture
c. 710 BCE, Iraq Museum, Baghdad

 

Mesopotamian
Silver Head of a Lion
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Spouted Bowl
c. 2600-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Spouted Cup
c. 2550-2400 BCE, British Museum, London

 

Mesopotamian
Spouted Cup
c. 2550-2400 BCE, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia

 

Mesopotamian
Spouted Ring-Shaped Vessel
c. 3300-3000 BCE

 

Mesopotamian
Stamp Seal in the Form of a Reclining Bull
c. 3200-2900 BCE, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

 

Mesopotamian
Stamp Seal showing a Priest and Altar
6th c BCE, Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Mesopotamian
Stamp Seal showing Four Cult Scenes
6th c BCE, Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

 

Mesopotamian
Standing Figure of Eannatum
c. 2600-2450 BCE, Menil Collection, Houston

 

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