Works of Art (9)
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Animal flask, 7th–8th century, Syria, Yellowish, pinkish, and grayish colorless glass, free-blown and applied; tooled on the pontil (1999.145) |
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Animal-headed ewer, 9th–10th century, Found at Nishapur, Iran, Buff earthenware body, underglaze-painted, transparent lead glaze (38.40.247) |
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Askos in the form of a deer, ca. 1725–1600 B.C.; Middle Cypriot III; White Painted V Ware, Cypriot; Said to be from Idalion (Potamia), Terracotta (74.51.795) |
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Cage animal flask, 7th–8th century, Syria, Applied glass (69.153) |
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Container in the shape of a horse and rider, 12th–13th century, Iran, Composite body, underglaze-painted (66.23) |
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Cult vessel in the form of a tower, 19th century B.C.; Old Babylonian period, Syria, Ceramic (68.155) |
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Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat, 1st century B.C.–1st century A.D.; Parthian period, Iran, Gilded silver (1979.447) |
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Vessel terminating in the forepart of a lion, Achaemenid, 5th century B.C.,
Iran, Gold (54.3.3) |
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Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag, 15th–13th century B.C.; Hittite period, Central Anatolia, Silver, gold (1989.281.10) |
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Thematic Essays (2)
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