Works of Art (42)
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Arrowheads, early 1st millennium B.C., Caucasus Mountain region, Bronze (1991.314.3-.8) |
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Bell inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti, 786756 B.C., Eastern Anatolia or Northwestern Iran, Urartian, Bronze, iron (1977.186) |
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Belt clasp, 1st3rd century A.D., Caucasus region (Georgia), Bronze (21.166.5) |
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Belt fragment of animals, 7th century B.C., Northwestern Iran, possibly Gushi, Bronze (52.123) |
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Bird handles from a bowl or basin, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (61.100.3a,b) |
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Bowl with handles terminating in lotuses, ca. 850750 B.C.; Cypro-Geometric III, Cypriot; Said to be from Kourion, Bronze (74.51.5673) |
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Bowl, 12th13th century; Ghaznavid, Afghanistan, High tin bronze, cast, hammered, chased, punched, and engraved (2000.57) |
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Bronze rod tripod, ca. 12501050 B.C.; Late Bronze Age, Cypriot; Said to be from Kourion, Bronze (74.51.5684) |
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Bronze waterspout in the form of a lion mask, ca. 100 B.C.100 A.D.; late Hellenistic or early Roman; Greco-Roman style, Greco-Roman; From Cyprus, Bronze (74.51.5677) |
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Brooch in the form of a stag, late 3rdearly 4th century, Caucasus region, Bronze (21.166.3) |
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Disk with running dogs surrounding a mountain goat, 1st3rd century A.D., Caucasus region, Bronze (21.166.1) |
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Ear probe, Roman,
Cypriot,
Bronze (74.51.5491) |
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Ewer, 11th century, Found at the Tepe Madraseh, Nishapur, Iran, Bronze, cast and engraved (38.40.240) |
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Ewer, 7th century, Iran, Bronze, cast, chased, and inlaid (47.100.90) |
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Ewer, 8thearly 9th century, Probably Syria, Bronze, cast, engraved, and pierced (41.65) |
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Fibula, 8th7th century B.C., Central Anatolia, Phrygia, Bronze (1970.231.1) |
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Figure of a bull, ca. mid- to late 1st millennium B.C., Southwestern Arabia, Bronze (47.100.85) |
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Figure of a lion, first half of 1st millennium B.C.,
Anatolia or Syria,
Copper alloy (2002.457a,b) |
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Foundation peg in the shape of the forepart of a lion, 22002000 B.C., Probably Tell Mozan (ancient Urkish), northeastern Syria, Bronze (48.180) |
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Handles and rim of a cauldron, ca. 13001050; Late Bronze Age, Cypriot, Bronze (74.51.5685) |
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Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings, 14th century B.C.; Middle Elamite period, Southwestern Iran, Bronze (63.74) |
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Incense burner, 11811182; Seljuq, Jacfar ibn Muhammad ibn cAli, Khorasan (eastern Iran), Iran; Found in Khorasan (eastern Iran), Tay-abad (Kariz), Iran, Cast bronze with openwork decoration (51.56) |
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Incense burner, mid-1st millennium B.C., Southern Arabia, Bronze (49.71.2) |
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Lion head terminal, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (63.109.1) |
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Mirror, 12th century, Iran, Cast bronze (42.136) |
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Oil lamp, late 12thearly 13th century,
Iran, Khorasan,
Bronze with silver and copper inlay (2001.470) |
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Part of a throne with deity on a bull, late 8th7th century B.C.; Urartian style, Probably Toprakkale, eastern Anatolia, Bronze (50.163) |
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Pin with recumbent lion, Iron Age II, 9th century B.C.,
Northwestern Iran; Excavated at Hasanlu,
Bronze (61.100.10) |
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Plaque fragment inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti (probably Argishti II), 8th7th century B.C., Eastern Anatolia or Northwestern Iran, Urartian, Bronze (1976.5) |
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Polycandelon with Crosses, 500600, Byzantine, Copper alloy (2002.483.7) |
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Portrait medallion of Süleyman the Magnificent, after 1521,
Probably Venice,
Bronze (18.70.8) |
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Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress, 18th century B.C.; Middle Bronze Age, Syria or Levant, Bronze (1985.262.2) |
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Shears, 18th19th century, Turkey, Steel, bronze, gold (67.55.127) |
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Sickle sword, 13071275 B.C.; Middle Assyrian period, reign of Adad-nirari I, Mesopotamia, Bronze (11.166.1) |
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Smiting god wearing an Egyptian atef crown, 15th14th century B.C., Levant, Bronze (1986.42) |
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Spatula, Roman,
Cypriot, Bronze (74.51.5509) |
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Standard top, 8th7th century B.C., Luristan, western Iran, Bronze (1996.82.1) |
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Standard top, late 2nd millennium B.C.; Middle Elamite period, Southwestern Iran, Bronze (57.13.1) |
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Tripod, ca. 14501050; Late Cypriot II or III, Cypriot, Bronze (74.51.5587) |
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Vessel, ca. 700, Syria, Bronze, pierced and chased, openwork design (1993.319) |
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Votive plaque inscribed with Sabaean dedication, late 1st millennium B.C., Southwestern Arabia, Bronze (1993.169) |
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Winged deity, 13th century B.C.; Hittite Empire period,
Anatolia,
Bronze, gold (1990.255) |
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Thematic Essays (9)
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