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Gallery 403 - Cities, States, and Early Empires: The Ancient Near East ca. 3000–1200 B.C.

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  • Standard with two long-horned bulls
    Standard with two long-horned bulls

    Date: ca. 2300–2000 B.C.
    Accession Number: 55.137.5

  • Reclining mouflon
    Reclining mouflon

    Date: ca. 2600–1900 B.C.
    Accession Number: 1978.58

  • Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
    Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag

    Date: ca. 14th–13th century B.C.
    Accession Number: 1989.281.10

  • Statue of Gudea
    Statue of Gudea

    Date: ca. 2090 B.C.
    Accession Number: 59.2

  • Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
    Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

    Date: ca. 18th century B.C.
    Accession Number: 32.161.46

  • Beaker with birds on the rim
    Beaker with birds on the rim

    Date: ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium B.C.
    Accession Number: 1989.281.38

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The rise of territorial states and empires in Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Syria during the third and second millennia B.C., with their palaces and temples, provided the context for the creation of elite works of art, including stone sculptures, metalwork, jewelry, carved ivories, ceramics, and cylinder seals.

They document regional cultural developments and illustrate interconnections between peoples that stretched from the Mesopotamian heartland eastward to Iran, Bactria-Margiana in western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley, and westward to the lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

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