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Image Title of Work or Type of Object Artist or Maker Date Accession Number
Seated female   7th–6th millennium B.C. 1985.84
Storage jar decorated with mountain goats   4th millennium B.C. 59.52
Eye idol   3500–3100 B.C. 1988.323.8
Head of a ram   3300–3100 B.C. 1981.53
Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief   3300–2900 B.C. 50.218
Administrative tablet with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars   3100–2900 B.C. 1988.433.1
Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel   3100–2900 B.C. 66.173
Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots   3000 B.C., ca. 2007.280
Stele of Ushumgal   2900–2600 B.C. 58.29
Standing male worshiper   2750–2600 B.C. 40.156
Man carrying a box, possibly for offerings   2900–2600 B.C. 55.142
Vessel stand with ibex support   2600–2350 B.C. 1974.190
Headdress, necklace, and hair ribbons   2600–2500 B.C. 33.35.3
Lunate earrings   2600–2500 B.C. 33.35.45–.46
Necklaces, earrings, beads, and pin   2600–2500 B.C. 33.35.47
Necklaces, earrings, beads, and pin   2600–2500 B.C. 33.35.48
Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees   2700–2350 B.C. 17.190.106
Standing warrior   3rd millennium B.C., middle 1989.281.9
Reclining mouflons (wild sheep)   2600–1900 B.C. 1978.58
Head of a ruler   2300–2000 B.C. 47.100.80