The Met: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Public domain works from the Met's Ancient Near Eastern Art department. Not associated with Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 

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Cuneiform tablet: fragment of Lugal-e, tablet 7, ca. 4th–1st century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Purchase, 1886 Size: 1 1/8 x 2 1/8 x 5/8 in. (2.7 x 5.4 x 1.6 cm) Medium: Clay

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/321835

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Scarab seal, ca. 1700–1560 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1985 Size: Seal Face: 1.36 x 1.92 cm Height: 0.78 cm String Hole: 0.2 cm Medium: Faience, white

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327099

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Spearhead, late 2nd–early 1st millennium B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Robert B. Forrest, 1962 Size: 10 1/8 × 1 7/16 × 2 1/4 in. (25.7 × 3.6 × 5.7 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/325548

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Bowl, 7th–6th millennium B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Sheldon and Barbara Breitbart, 1985 Size: 1.52 x 1.52 x 2.32 in. (3.86 x 3.86 x 5.89 cm) Medium: Calcite alabaster

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/327123

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Cylinder seal, ca. 14th–13th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Size: 1.04 in. (2.64 cm) Medium: Steatite

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/321407

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Carinated hemispheroid seal, ca. 4000–3500 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Martin and Sarah Cherkasky, 1983 Size: Seal Face: 2.64 x 2.24 cm Height: 1.11 cm String Hole: 0.3 cm Medium: Chlorite or steatite, brown-black

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/326734

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Stamp seal, ca. 4th century A.D., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Purchase, 1899 Size: 0.39 x 0.59 x 0.43 in. (0.99 x 1.5 x 1.09 cm) Medium: Carnelian

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322318

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Pendant, ca. 3rd–7th century A.D., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Rogers Fund, 1934 Size: 0.75 x 0.37 in. (1.91 x 0.94 cm) Medium: Agate

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/323067

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Dish with Design of Foliate Motifs, Unknown, c.1600, Saint Louis Art Museum: Islamic Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/62611/

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Adze head, 2nd millennium B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of H. Dunscombe Colt, 1961 Size: 1.54 x 5.91 in. (3.91 x 15.01 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/325125

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Inner Coffin of Menkheperre ©, usurped from Ahmose, ca. 1000–945 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art

Rogers Fund, 1925 Size: L. 186 cm (73 ¼ in) Medium: Wood, paste, paint

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/551107

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Figurine, ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Steven D. Robinson, 1981 Size: 1.81 x 1.73 in. (4.6 x 4.39 cm) Medium: Copper alloy

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/326674

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Bowl, ca. 9th–10th century A.D., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Rogers Fund, 1933 Size: H. 3.6 cm x Diam. 8.8 cm Medium: Ceramic

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/322970

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Spindle whorl, 3rd–2nd millennium B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Rogers Fund, 1959 Size: Diam. 2.1 cm x D. .6 cm Medium: Bone

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/324899

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Bowl, ca. 9th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Purchase, The Adelaide Milton de Groot Fund, in memory of the de Groot and Hawley families, 1976 Size: 1.69 in. (4.29 cm) Medium: Ceramic

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/326185

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Cuneiform tablet: account of blanket delivery, Ebabbar archive, ca. 605 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Purchase, 1886 Size: 1.32 x 2.25 x .75 in. (3.35 x 5.72 x 1.8 cm) Medium: Clay

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/321799

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Compartmented stamp seal, ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ancient Near Eastern Art

Gift of Steven D. Robinson, 1982 Size: 1 3/4 x 1 11/16 in. (4.4 x 4.3 cm) Medium: Copper alloy

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/326700