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The Collection Database is a searchable database of artworks and related materials from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An individual database record includes information about an object as well as images, when available. The Museum's curators have selected several works of note within the Collection Database as Highlights of the collection.

Due to the extremely large number of objects in the Museum's permanent collection, not all artworks are currently available in the Collection Database. Furthermore, information contained in the database records is, in some cases, incomplete, and all information is subject to change according to ongoing research and new acquisitions.

For information about the Museum's policies that guide the development and care of its permanent collection, see the Collections Management Policy.

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Works 1–20 of 138,872
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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
Bowl with Human Feet   ca. 3750–3550 B.C. 10.176.113
Male Figurine   ca. 3650–3300 B.C. 54.28.2
Flint Blade   ca. 3650–3300 B.C. 16.2.4
Elephant   ca. 3500–3300 B.C. 59.101.1
    3500-3300 BC 20.2.10
Plaque in the Shape of a Squarish Loop with Projections     2009.176
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
Ornamental Comb   ca. 3200 B.C. 30.8.224
Lion Cub   3100-2900 BC 66.99.2
Libation Dish   ca. 3100–2900 B.C. 19.2.16
Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel   3100–2900 B.C. 66.173
Administrative tablet with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars   3100–2900 B.C. 1988.433.1
Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots   3000 B.C., ca. 2007.280
Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon   3rd–2nd millennium B.C. 1982.5
Seated female   3rd–2nd millennium B.C. 1989.281.41a, b
Standing female figure wearing a strap and a necklace   3rd–2nd millennium B.C. 1998.380
Openwork stamp seal: horned(?)figure holding snakes   3rd–2nd millennium B.C. 1984.4
Works 1–20 of 138,872
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