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October 2005


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Every day, a different object from the Met's collection is featured on the splash page of this website, together with an outtake from our curatorial files about that object's history, creator, iconography, materials, or other interesting attributes.

Fascinating facts about featured artworks are gathered in this archive, by date of appearance on the site. For more in-depth information about these and thousands of other objects in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, visit the online Collection Database.


			This statue of a Sumerian worshipper with clasped hands was set up in a temple. It was probably designed to pray perpetually on behalf of the person it represented. Standing male worshiper, 2750–2600 B.C.; Early Dynastic period II; Sumerian style Excavated at Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), central Mesopotamia Alabaster (gypsum), shell, black limestone; H. 11.9 in. (29.5 cm) Fletcher Fund, by exchange, 1940 (40.156)

	See Ancient Near Eastern Art for more information about this object.


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		A Goldsmith in His Shop, Possibly Saint Eligius, 1449

		Eyes, 1982

		Asia; oder, Genaue und grundliche Beschreibung des gantzen Syrien und Palestins, oder belobten Landes . . ., 1681

		Coat, ca. 1833

		The Eavesdropper, ca. 1430; Timurid period (1370–1507)

		Statue of Eros sleeping, 3rd–2nd century B.C.; Hellenistic

		Celestial Globe with Clockwork, 16th century (1579)

		Head of a Hippopotamus, ca. 1391–1353 B.C.E.; Dynasty 18, probably reign of Amenhotep III; New Kingdom

		Circus Sideshow, 1887–88

		Female dancer, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 9), 2nd century B.C.

		Embroidered sampler, ca. 1791

		Tournament Helm (Stechhelm), ca. 1500

		Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf, Parthian; A.D. 2nd–3rd century

		Bacchante and Infant Faun, 1893–94; this cast, 1894

		Quilt, ca. 1890

		Reclining Odalisque, 1858

		Pipe Organ, 1830

		"Carlton" Room Divider, 1981

		The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director: Being a Large Collection of . . . Designs of Household Furniture in the Gothic, Chinese and Modern Taste . . ., 1754

		Nude Before a Mirror, 1955

		Animal carpet, 14th century

		Casket with Scenes from Romances, 14th century

		South of Scranton, 1931

		Screaming Woman with Blood on Her Hands, ca. 1958

		Standing male worshiper, 2750–2600 B.C.; Early Dynastic period II; Sumerian style

		Viola da Gamba, ca. 1680

		Amphora (jar), ca. 490 B.C.; Classical; red-figure

		Coin Cabinet, 19th century (ca. 1805)

		Standing Figure, 3rd–7th century

		Frank Johnson, Leader of the Brass Band of the 128th Regiment in Saratoga, with his wife, Helen, 1843–44

		The Annunciation, 1480–89

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