West Asia

  • Essays (194)
  • Works of Art (736)
  • Chronology (45)
  • Coin
    39.40.127.35
  • Coin
    39.40.127.103
  • Coin
    39.40.127.300
  • Coin
    39.40.127.4
  • Coin
    39.40.127.43
  • Coin
    39.40.127.535
  • Coin
    39.40.127.568
  • Tetradrachm
    99.35.2958
  • Drachm
    99.35.2959
  • Drachm
    99.35.2957
  • Drachm
    99.35.2956
  • Drachm
    99.35.2955
  • Drachm
    69.24.22
  • Drachm
    99.35.2952
  • Drachm
    99.35.2961
  • Drachm
    99.35.2962
  • Drachm
    99.35.2960
  • Drachm
    99.35.2963
  • Tetradrachm
    99.35.2964
  • Dice
    36.30.7
  • Ring
    1971.165
  • Pendant
    1974.22
  • Jug
    32.150.87
  • Incantation bowl with Mandaic inscription
    32.150.89
  • Relief fragment
    32.150.62
  • Wall decoration with floral and vegetal design
    32.150.5
  • Pendant fragment
    32.150.223
  • Bracelet
    32.150.204
  • Earspoon
    32.150.197
  • Pin
    32.150.196
  • Jug
    32.150.166
  • Lamp
    32.150.163
  • Dish
    32.150.154
  • Bowl
    32.150.144
  • Wall decoration with pomegranates in palmettes
    32.150.14
  • Mosaic bead
    32.150.113
  • Wall decoration with floral and vegetal design
    32.150.11
  • Cuneiform tablet: private letter
    66.245.1
  • Cuneiform tablet: caravan account
    66.245.10
  • Stamp seal
    1999.325.203
  • Plaque fragment: kneeling lion-headed figure
    36.70.14
  • Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
    36.70.1
  • Fragmentary gaming board: game of 58 holes
    36.70.37g
  • Stamp seal with a knob handle: bird of prey with two horned animals caught in its talons
    99.22.3
  • Sealing with stamp seal impressions: radiating griffins; banquet scene
    36.70.17
  • Vessel
    67.182.1
  • Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals in Assyrian and Anatolian styles, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.17a: loan of silver
    66.245.17b
  • Cuneiform tablet case impressed with four cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.15a: quittance
    66.245.15b
  • Cuneiform tablet with a small second tablet: private letter
    1983.135.4a,b
  • Cuneiform tablet: loan of silver
    66.245.17a
  • Cuneiform tablet: private letter
    66.245.5a
  • Square plaque seal with stalk handle
    93.17.111
  • Cylinder seal: seated figure approached by a goddess leading a worshiper
    1988.380.2
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: scorpion-man, deities, one on winged lion
    1987.200.1
  • Assyrian Crown-Prince
    32.143.13
  • Relief fragment: cavalrymen along a stream in mountainous terrain
    32.143.16
  • Head of a beardless royal attendant, possibly a eunuch
    33.16.2
  • Foreign groom in a tributary procession
    33.16.1
  • Relief fragment: siege of a city by Assyrian troops
    32.143.15
  • Relief depicting a cavalryman leading his horse beside a stream
    32.143.18
  • Relief: Assyrian soldier conducting captives across the water
    32.143.5
  • Relief: procession of captives
    32.143.17
  • Battle scene of Assyrians storming a citadel
    55.121.4a,b
  • Threshold pavement slab with a carpet design
    X.153
  • Sherd
    1985.61.2
  • Brick fragments with guilloche design
    57.27.24a,b
  • Cuneiform tablet: hymn to Marduk
    86.11.313
  • Cuneiform tablet: private letter
    86.11.111
  • Cylinder seal
    1987.96.5
  • Inscribed brick
    59.41.84
  • Cylinder seal
    1986.311.39
  • Cuneiform tablet: Old Babylonian balag to the mother goddess Aruru
    86.11.62
  • Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Lipit-Eshtar
    1971.71
  • Cuneiform tablet: student exercise tablet
    86.11.251
  • Head of a female
    1989.281.7
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: goddess leading a worshiper to a seated deity; bull god
    1991.368.3
  • Inscribed brick
    59.41.86
  • Head of a Persian guard
    55.121.3
  • Relief fragment with graffiti of two humans and animal heads
    45.11.17
  • Relief: figure in a procession
    39.133
  • Bull's head from column capital
    47.100.83
  • Male figure
    1983.117
  • Plaque with two male figures supporting a roller
    1980.407.1
  • Openwork plaque with figures
    1984.454.1a,b
  • Ceramic imitation of bronze roller with two kilted figures
    1998.240
  • Plaque with a nude female between two bearded males wearing kilts
    1998.31
  • Figurine
    54.55.2
  • Female figure
    51.7.1
  • Roller
    1984.454.2
  • Roller
    1980.407.3
  • Chair back carved in relief
    59.107.3
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2078
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2079
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2080
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2081
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2082
  • Relief panel
    31.72.2
  • Relief panel
    31.72.3
  • Relief panel
    32.143.6
  • Relief panel
    32.143.9
  • Relief panel
    17.190.2077
  • Relief panel
    32.143.10
  • Relief panel
    32.143.11
  • Relief panel
    32.143.12
  • Relief panel
    32.143.14
  • Relief panel
    84.11
  • Brick fragment with the head of an ibex
    57.27.28
  • Champlevé furniture or cosmetic box plaque with a winged youth
    61.197.10
  • Fan or fly-whisk handle in the form of four female figures
    52.23.2
  • Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion
    62.269.1
  • Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds
    58.31.3
  • Pomegranate carved in the round
    54.117.7
  • Head of a female wearing a necklace originally filled with stone inlay and gold
    54.117.2
  • Incised cosmetic box fragments with a warrior and four women
    54.117.11a-c
  • Relief panel
    32.143.8
  • Relief panel
    32.143.7
  • Relief panel
    31.72.1
  • Relief panel
    32.143.3
  • Wall decoration from Ctesiphon
    32.150.45
  • Wall decoration from Ctesiphon
    32.150.12
  • Wall decoration with a reclining youth
    32.150.30
  • Wall decoration with a female dancer
    32.150.25
  • Wall decoration from Ctesiphon
    32.150.21
  • Mishley
    1981.300
  • Shir-Hashirim
    1981.237
  • Stele of the protective goddess Lama
    61.12
  • Wall panel with a charging boar
    32.150.22
  • Rhyton with female head
    2001.178
  • Plaque in the form of a reclining man
    55.162.2
  • Silver gilt bowl
    1990.228
  • Cosmetic palette
    56.81.56
  • Vessel
    66.235
  • Silver drachm
    99.35.2953
  • Drachm
    99.35.2951
  • Earrings
    1984.175.38a,b
  • Earring
    X.94
  • Earrings
    35.29.4
  • Earrings
    35.29.3
  • Earring
    35.29.2
  • Earring
    35.29.1
  • Panel with striding lion
    31.13.2
  • Human-headed winged lion (lamassu)
    32.143.2
  • Book Cover (?) with Ivory Figures
    17.190.33
  • Drawing of Sasanian rock relief: Ardashir I (r. A.D. 224-241) and the Zoroastrian divinity Ahura Mazda at Naqsh-i Rustam, southern Iran
    1998.6.3
  • Wall panel with a guinea fowl
    32.150.13
  • Wall panel with a grapevine
    32.150.24
  • Roundel with radiating palmettes
    32.150.1
  • Panel
    32.150.16
  • Roundel with radiating palmettes
    32.150.4
  • Bead with cuneiform inscription of Kurigalzu I or II
    1994.433
  • Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory(?) inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil
    41.160.187
  • Inscribed brick: dedicatory inscription of Adad-shuma-usur
    59.41.82
  • Cylinder seal
    1985.357.29
  • Cylinder seal
    1985.357.25
  • Mastiff
    1989.233
  • Cylinder seal cap
    47.1l
  • Cuneiform tablet: letter of Sin-sharra-ishkun to Nabopolassar
    86.11.370a,c-e
  • Stamp seal: worshiper kneeling before mushhushshu-dragon and standard
    86.11.35
  • Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the construction of the outer city wall of Babylon
    86.11.60
  • Cuneiform prism describing the restoration of Babylon by Esarhaddon, stamped with Assyrian hieroglyphic inscription
    86.11.283
  • Top fragment of a kudurru with a mushhushshu dragon and divine symbols
    1985.45
  • Cylinder seal: male worshiper, dog surmounted by a standard
    1985.357.44
  • Polychrome Luster Tile Fragment
    23.75.25
  • Cast of a Ninth-Century Wall Panel Carved in the
    27.229.2
  • Jar
    1997.31
  • Untitled
    2014.45
  • The Key
    2014.690
  • Callilgraphic Drawing 1 and 2, Untitled
    2014.299.1,2
  • Ahmad Shah - The Last King of Qajar
    2014.430
  • Untitled, 2013
    2013.1092
  • Mosaic fragments
    32.150.198
  • Mosaic fragments
    32.150.213
  • Mosaic Tesserae
    23.75.1a-l
  • Shaped Inlay Pieces
    23.75.2a-d
  • Tile
    46.174
  • Glass Tile Fragments
    23.75.15a,b
  • Drachm of Bahram IV
    99.35.2965
  • Bowl with Bahram Gur and Azada
    57.36.2
  • Oval bowl with grapevine scrolls inhabited by birds and animals
    59.130.1
  • Wall panel with wings and a Pahlavi device encircled by pearls
    32.150.48
  • Wall panel with a charging bear
    32.150.23
  • Plate with youths and winged horses
    63.152
  • 1970.301.66
  • Plate: the king Yazdgard I, slaying a stag
    1970.6
  • Garden Gathering
    03.9c
  • Terracotta statuette of a male flute-player
    74.51.1691
  • Shield bearer
    74.51.1655
  • Terracotta statuette of a man, probably a warrior
    74.51.1614
  • Tusk Fragment with the Ascension
    17.190.46
  • Gravestone with Bust of a Young Man
    2012.454
  • Tiraz fragment
    31.19.2
  • Tiraz fragment
    31.106.27
  • Tiraz textile fragment
    31.106.56a
  • Tiraz fragment from an ikat shawl
    29.179.10
  • Textile fragment with inscription
    32.129.2
  • Qur'an Manuscript
    37.142
  • Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript in Mayil (
    1979.201
  • Folio from the Tashkent Qur’an
    2004.87
  • Folios from a Qur’an Manuscript
    40.164.5ab
  • Shirt #1
    2012.109
  • Untitled
    2012.356
  • Interior, Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
    1988.1174.9
  • Cope
    49.32.71
  • Bag
    29.23.24
  • London Papardelle
    2012.31
  • Silver-Gilt Mouthpiece
    74.51.3004
  • Pommel Plate from a Saddle
    2010.336
  • Dragon and Clouds
    2010.309
  • Bath scraper
    26.102.7
  • Towel
    26.34.65
  • Kaftan
    2003.416a-e
  • Chasuble
    06.1210
  • Fragment
    52.20.19
  • Fragmentary Loom Width with Ogival Pattern
    49.32.79
  • Loom Width with Floral and Tiger-stripe Design
    44.41.3
  • Fragment
    15.125.7
  • Yastik Cushion Cover
    17.120.123
  • Fragmentary Cenotaph Cover with Qur'anic Calligraphy
    32.100.460
  • Loom Width with Serrated Leaf Design
    52.20.17
  • Faces #10
    1993.328.1
  • Faces #53
    1993.328.2
  • Flight of the Dolphin
    2010.395
  • Solidus
    04.35.3356
  • Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena
    59.184
  • Velvet Panel with Hunting Scene
    1972.189
  • Textile Fragment Depicting a Figure in a Landscape
    08.109.3
  • Velvet Fragment with Design from Nizami's Khusrau and Shirin
    1978.60
  • Safavid Courtiers Leading Georgian Captives
    52.20.12
  • Silk Fragment with a Rosebush, Deer and Flower Pattern
    49.32.99
  • Sash with Flowering Plants
    33.80.18
  • Textile Panel with birds Amid Flowering Vines
    26.231.2
  • Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants
    12.72.5
  • Silk velvet signed by
    52.20.13
  • Textile Fragment with Hunting Scene
    51.57
  • Coin
    99.35.2386
  • Yellow-Green Hexagonal Glass Bottle with a Stylite Saint
    61.247
  • Table Base with Jonah swallowed and cast up by the Big Fish
    77.7
  • Panel
    46.156.72
  • Stone oil lamp
    38.40.116
  • Physician's Cupping Glass or Alembic
    40.170.132
  • Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi
    13.160.10
  • Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
    19.68.1
  • Ewer base with Zodiac medallions
    91.1.530
  • Inkwell with Zodiac signs
    59.69.2a,b
  • Bowl
    68.215.10
  • Inkwell with twelve Zodiac medallions
    44.131
  • Flask with Zodiac medallions
    57.164
  • Basin with Zodiac signs and royal titles
    91.1.553
  • Bowl
    27.13.9
  • Footed bowl
    91.1.543
  • Mortar and pestle made for Abu Bakr 'Ali Malikzad al-Tabrizi
    91.1.527a,b
  • 08.173.13
  • Bowl with green, yellow, and brown splashed decoration
    38.40.137
  • Two Bowls with Figures and a Footed Plate with Birds
    38.40.290
  • Strand of beads
    48.101.70
  • Pen Box with Architectural Cartouches
    2008.246a,b
  • Pectoral ornament
    2008.579.3
  • Four Gospels in Armenian
    2010.108
  • Qur'anic Compilation Page
    2008.31
  • Tile panel
    2009.59.2
  • Carpet
    1974.149.15
  • Saber
    36.25.1293
  • 35.64.3
  • Standard
    1984.504.2
  • Seal ring with inscription
    12.224.6
  • Mantiq al-tair (Language of the Birds)
    63.210
  • 63.210.4
  • 63.210.18
  • 63.210.22
  • Panel
    33.41.1a-e
  • 69.267
  • 08.167.1
  • Fragmentary bronze portrait of the emperor Caracalla
    1989.281.80
  • Terracotta jug
    43.11.2
  • Calligraphic Galleon
    2003.241
  • Cordiform Pendant
    2005.443.1
  • Crown
    2006.544.8
  • Collar stud
    2007.497.6
  • Pair of Armbands
    2006.544.13a,b
  • Pectoral ornament
    2008.579.6
  • Amulet Holder
    2005.443.8
  • Base for a Cross
    62.10.8
  • Double-sided Pendant Icon with the Virgin and Christ Pantokrator
    1994.403
  • The Anhalt Medallion Carpet
    46.128
  • Chess set
    1971.193a-ff
  • Dish depicting two birds among flowering plants
    59.69.1
  • Dish with two intertwined dragons
    65.109.2
  • The Emperor's Carpet
    43.121.1
  • Earrings and Pendant
    2007.340
  • Pair of Earrings
    2006.273a,b
  • Marble relief fragment
    26.199.63
  • Self-Portrait with Open Mouth
    1996.343
  • Jaharis Byzantine Lectionary
    2007.286
  • Cameo of the Virgin and Child
    2007.445
  • Dish with
    1991.172
  • Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh
    1994.402
  • Figure of a lion
    2002.457a,b
  • Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots
    2007.280
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: winged horse with claws and horns
    1999.325.89
  • Two-sided Pendant with the Archangel Michael and Daniel in the Lion's Dean
    1987.442.4
  • 1970.301.73
  • 1970.301.62
  • Carpet
    2006.190
  • Pen Box (Qalamdan) Depicting Shah Isma'il in a Battle against the Uzbeks
    2006.523
  • 1970.301.35
  • The Shah's Wise Men Approve Zal's Marriage: From the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp
    1970.301.13
  • 1970.301.4
  • 1970.301.36
  • 1970.301.51
  • 1970.301.3
  • 1970.301.21
  • Terracotta vase in the form of a sleeping African (known as Ethiopian) boy
    74.51.2263
  • Chlorite pendant in the form of the head of an African (known as Ethiopian)
    74.51.5010
  • Terracotta jug
    74.51.532
  • Sword (ral gri)
    1995.136
  • Pair of stirrups
    1997.214.2a,b
  • Bit and Bridle
    1998.282
  • Saddle (gser sga)
    1997.214.1
  • Set of saddle plates
    1999.118
  • Icon with the Virgin and Child
    17.190.103
  • Casket with Warriors and Dancers
    17.190.239
  • Book of Prayers, Sura Yasin and Surat al-Fath
    2003.239
  • Goblets with applied decoration
    2000.279.1,.2
  • Dragon wrapped around featherlike saz leaves
    2000.424
  • Fragment
    2001.54
  • Bird-shaped oil lamp
    2001.470
  • Fragment of a sarcophagus with a seated figure
    18.108
  • Qur'an Bookbinding Inset with Turquoise
    56.222
  • Bottle
    2005.318
  • Panel of velvet
    53.157
  • Rectangular Textile Fragment
    17.29.10
  • <em>Khamsa</em> (Quintet) of Nizami
    13.228.6
  • Seated goddess with a child
    1989.281.12
  • Border #8
    1999.240
  • Tehilim
    1983.199
  • Untitled
    1992.301.2
  • The Night Patrol at Smyrna
    87.15.93
  • Sketch for Jesus the Son of Man
    32.45.5
  • Relief Rhythm
    1991.402.3
  • Transmutation III
    1996.264.3
  • Lion's head terminal
    63.109.1
  • Pin in the form of a lion
    61.100.10
  • Pair of bird-shaped handles
    61.100.3ab
  • Plaque fragment
    65.163.22
  • Dragon Carpet
    1971.263.5
  • Vessel terminating in the forepart of a bull
    1989.281.11
  • Pins with spherical heads
    1989.281.14
  • Winged deity
    1990.255
  • Lira
    2003.378
  • Helmet
    36.25.119
  • [Album of 131 Views of a French Family & Their Travels]
    1990.1181
  • Saber
    36.25.1297
  • Limestone statuette of a childbirth scene
    74.51.2698
  • Ear probe
    74.51.5491
  • Spatula
    74.51.5509
  • Terracotta statuette of a man holding a quadruped
    74.51.1613
  • Fibula
    1970.231.1
  • Bell inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti
    1977.186
  • Plaque fragment with chariot scenes inscribed with the Urartian royal name Argishti
    1976.5
  • Belt fragment of animals
    52.123
  • Standing female worshiper
    62.70.2
  • Cuneiform tablet: administrative account with entries concerning malt and barley groats
    1988.433.3
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: three
    1985.143
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: bull-man combatting lion; nude hero combatting water buffalo; inscription
    1999.325.4
  • Tetradrachm of Seleucus I
    1974.105.9
  • Cuneiform tablet: a-she-er gi-ta, balag to Innin/Ishtar
    86.11.286a
  • Horse blinker with a seated sphinx wearing a uraeus and sun-disk headdress
    54.117.1
  • Plaque with pharaonic figures flanking a sacred tree
    62.269.3
  • Scarab seal and modern impression: Osiris flanked by protective deities
    41.160.162
  • Ensemble
    C.I.39.91.14a-f
  • Terracotta statuette of a
    74.51.1607
  • Bronze tripod
    74.51.5587
  • Bronze handles and rim of a cauldron
    74.51.5685
  • Bronze shepherd's crook
    74.51.5570
  • Bronze spearhead
    74.51.5283
  • Cameo with the Archangel Michael
    40.20.58
  • Illuminated Psalter
    2001.730
  • Batrashil
    14.137
  • Abraham Sacrificing Isaac
    1970.275
  • Page of calligraphy
    1979.518.6
  • Naser al-Din Shah
    1977.683.22
  • Naser al-Din Shah
    1977.683.24
  • Kamanche
    1998.72
  • Women of Allah
    1997.129.8
  • Hills III
    1987.205.1
  • Kav-92
    1993.265
  • Cuirass (char-aina)
    48.92.1
  • Dagger (Kindjal) with Sheath
    81.1.599
  • Page of calligraphy in ornamental style
    1998.268
  • Portrait of a Girl in a Round Pendant
    20.106.2
  • Rose and nightingale (gul-o-bul-bul) drawing
    1993.98
  • Hanging
    10.33.1
  • Beads
    1980.306a-e
  • Scissors
    67.55.127
  • Towel end
    79.1.275
  • Banner
    1976.312
  • Rug
    1974.149.29
  • Qur'an manuscript
    1980.603
  • Tile with an image of a prince on horseback
    83.1.67
  • Salman-i Farsi's Conversion
    1997.293
  • Mashq or Practice Page
    62.152.12
  • Marriage contract
    1979.518.5a-q
  • The Queen of Sheba Enthroned
    1979.518.1
  • Assembly of Four Sufis
    1979.461
  • Dagger (Kard) with Sheath
    36.25.1043
  • Swan-Neck Glass Bottle
    17.190.829
  • Garden carpet
    67.156
  • Lacquer Mirror Case
    1979.460.2ab
  • Silver-gilt bowl
    74.51.4554
  • Bronze bowl with handles terminating in lotuses
    74.51.5673
  • Terracotta head of a man
    74.51.1458
  • Limestone priest
    74.51.2466
  • Terracotta lentoid flask
    74.51.431
  • Limestone sarcophagus
    74.51.2451
  • Limestone statue of a youth
    74.51.2457
  • Limestone statue of a bearded man with votive offerings
    74.51.2461
  • Marble anthropoid sarcophagus
    74.51.2452
  • Limestone funerary stele (shaft) surmounted by two sphinxes
    74.51.2499
  • Limestone statue of a young man
    74.51.2465
  • Limestone statue of a veiled female votary
    74.51.2456
  • Seated boy
    74.51.1449
  • Glass alabastron (perfumebottle)
    74.51.319
  • Gold, beryl, and garnet earring with head of a dolphin
    74.51.3401-3402
  • Terracotta skyphos (drinking cup)
    16.75.14
  • Terracotta lydion (perfume jar)
    26.164.27
  • Terracotta bowl
    74.51.1329
  • Terracotta jug
    74.51.1084
  • Terracotta chariot krater
    74.51.964
  • Saber with Scabbard
    23.232.2
  • Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll
    66.25
  • Mosque lamp
    14.40.731
  • Dragon Carpet
    22.100.122
  • Vase Carpet
    1970.302.2
  • Pilgrim Flask
    1984.100
  • Cushion Cover (Yastik)
    30.95.66
  • Planispheric astrolabe
    63.166a-j
  • Bowl with three fish
    59.60
  • Pen box
    89.2.194
  • Frieze Tile
    10.9.1
  • Tile from an inscriptional frieze
    12.44
  • Tile Panel in the form of an Architectural Niche
    09.87
  • Mihrab Tile
    1983.345
  • Bowl
    34.151
  • Large Jar
    56.185.3
  • Covered Jar
    57.61.12a,b
  • 1974.290.31
  • 36.113.2
  • Bahram Gur Hunting with Azada: From the <I>Shahnama</I> (Book of Kings)
    57.51.32
  • Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
    57.51.25
  • 1974.290.23
  • 1974.290.26
  • Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess: Folio from the <em>Shahnama</em> (Book of Kings)
    34.24.1
  • Nushirvan Receives Mihras, Envoy of Caesar: Folio from the <em>Shahnama</em> (Book of Kings)
    34.24.3
  • Nushirvan Eating Food Brought by the Sons of Mahbud: Folio from the <em>Shahnama</em> (Book of Kings)
    52.20.2
  • Footed cup
    91.1.559
  • Helmet
    1995.68
  • The Lovers
    50.164
  • Page of Calligraphy
    1986.216.1
  • Tile panel with wavy-vine design
    22.185.13a-f
  • Damascus Room
    1970.170
  • Window
    93.26.3
  • Portrait of Sultan Ahmet I (r. 1603–17)
    44.30
  • Ushak medallion carpet on white ground
    1984.69
  • Chilins (Chinese Chimerical Creatures) Fighting with a Dragon
    55.121.35
  • Carpet
    62.156
  • Genealogical scroll
    67.272
  • Hizb (Litany) of An-Nawawi
    1975.192.1
  • Carpet with Geometricized Floral Design
    1970.302.10
  • Bottle
    30.95.158
  • Reciting Poetry in a Garden
    03.9b
  • Board for ruling paper
    1973.1
  • Pen Box with a Europeanizing Landscape
    2000.491a,b
  • Mounted Hunter with Dog
    1975.192.17
  • A Portuguese
    55.121.23
  • Book cover with Christian themes
    34.23
  • Shahnama (Book of Kings)
    13.228.17
  • Calligraphic Plaque
    1987.14
  • Floral Brocade
    59.58
  • Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
    1974.290.43
  • Lion and Dragon in Combat
    1974.20
  • Jar with lion and landscape elements
    30.95.160a,b
  • 50.190.1
  • Page of Calligraphy
    62.152.14
  • Standing female figure wearing a strap and a necklace
    1998.380
  • Figure of a standing woman
    86.16.1
  • Figure of a reclining woman
    86.16.3
  • Terracotta statuette of woman with bird face
    74.51.1542
  • Glass conical bowl
    81.10.243
  • Glass gold-band mosaic alabastron (perfume bottle)
    17.194.286
  • Glass jug
    74.51.134
  • Four monochrome bowls
    1972.118.185_13.1
  • Earring
    33.35.45,.46
  • Necklace
    33.35.47
  • Necklace beads
    33.35.48
  • Fragment of a bowl with a frieze of bulls in relief
    50.218
  • Head of a ram
    1981.53
  • Seal amulet in the form of a seated female and modern impression
    1988.380.1
  • Bowl
    49.133.2
  • Bowl
    49.133.3
  • Bowl
    49.133.4
  • Drop-shaped (tanged) pendant seal and modern impression: quadrupeds
    93.17.122
  • Stamp seal and modern impression: horned animal and bird
    1984.175.13
  • Stamp seal and modern impression: quadruped
    1984.175.15
  • Bowl fragment
    1983.407
  • Seated female
    1985.84
  • Stamp seal and modern impression: geometric pattern
    1986.311.1
  • Sherd
    1988.323.6
  • Sherd
    1988.323.7
  • Hexagonal Tile
    x.228.1
  • 63.210.11
  • Mosque-lamp-shaped vessel with Arabic inscriptions
    59.69.3
  • Binding for the Mantiq al-tayr (Language of the Birds)
    63.210.67
  • Khusrau and Shirin
    69.27
  • Lidded Box of Muhammad al-Hamawi, Timekeeper at the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus
    91.1.538
  • Basin of Sultan Qaytbay
    91.1.565
  • Turban Helmet
    50.87
  • Velvet with Figural Imagery
    52.20.11
  • Fragment of a kaftan back
    52.20.15
  • Fragmentary loom width with wavy-vine pattern
    52.20.21
  • Three Men before a Castle: Folio from the <em>Khavarannama</em> (Book of the East) of Ibn Husam
    55.184.1
  • Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden
    57.51.24
  • 'Saz'-style Drawing of a Dragon amid Foliage
    57.51.26
  • 58.63
  • Tile Panel with Calligraphic Inscription
    58.90.1a-g
  • 45.174.5
  • Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)
    38.149.1
  • Field Ensign
    36.25.1961
  • Futuh al-Haramain (Description of the Holy Cities)
    32.131
  • Bowl
    32.33
  • Carpet with Triple-arch Design
    22.100.51
  • Composite camel with attendant
    25.83.6
  • The Great Abu Sa'ud Teaching Law: Folio from the <em>Divan</em> of Mahmud 'Abd al-Baqi
    25.83.9
  • Tile
    1998.246
  • Yataghan from the Court of Süleyman the Magnificent (reigned 1520–66)
    1993.14
  • Jewelry elements
    1989.87a-l
  • 1970.301.2
  • Silk Animal Carpet
    14.40.721
  • Dish
    14.40.727
  • Bowl
    17.120.70
  • Standing man
    51.72.1
  • Helmet
    04.3.456a
  • Fragmentary Silk Velvet with Repeating Tiger-stripe and 'Chintamani' Design
    08.109.23
  • Carpet with a compartment design
    10.61.3
  • Princely Hawking Party
    12.223.1
  • Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan
    13.228.1
  • Anthology of Persian Poetry
    13.228.19
  • Head of a ruler
    47.100.80
  • Terracotta jug with an oversize spout
    14.30.9
  • Terracotta architectural tile
    26.164.1
  • Clasp with an eagle and its prey
    17.190.2055
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: worshiper before a seated ruler or deity; seated female under a grape arbor
    1987.343
  • Ingot with Hittite hieroglyphs
    1989.281.16
  • Steelyard Weight with a Bust of a Byzantine Empress and a Hook
    1980.416ab
  • Gold Buckle with Garnets
    1986.341
  • Crossbow Brooch
    1995.97
  • Open bowl
    1977.234.12
  • Terracotta zoomorphic askos (vessel) with antlers
    74.51.795
  • Limestone statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros
    74.51.2464
  • Glass alabastron (perfumebottle)
    74.51.312
  • Bronze water spouts in the form of lion masks
    74.51.5677-5678
  • Spout in the shape of a man's head
    56.56
  • Disk with running dogs surrounding a mountain goat
    21.166.1
  • Brooch in the form of a stag
    21.166.3
  • Belt clasp
    21.166.5
  • Head of a king
    65.126
  • Stamp seal: standing noble holding a flower
    22.139.41
  • Plate with king hunting rams
    34.33
  • Earring in the form of a three-lobed wineskin
    1995.366
  • Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf
    32.145a,b
  • Figure of a bull
    47.100.85
  • Head of a man
    1982.317.1
  • Gravestone with funerary banquet
    02.29.1
  • Group of four vases
    1989.281.45a,b-.48
  • Bronze rod tripod
    74.51.5684
  • Gold stater
    26.59.2
  • Limestone sarcophagus: the Amathus sarcophagus
    74.51.2453
  • Vessel terminating in the forepart of a stag
    1989.281.10
  • Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.5a: record of a lawsuit
    66.245.5b
  • Stamp seal: hunters and goats, rectangular pen (?)
    1987.96.22
  • Top of standard with male figure and flanking ibexes attacked by dogs
    57.13.1
  • Roundel with the head of a
    1989.281.24
  • Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings
    63.74
  • Molded plaque: king or a god carrying a mace
    32.39.2
  • Sickle sword
    11.166.1
  • Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
    32.161.46
  • Necklace pendants and beads
    47.1a-h
  • Head of a male
    1972.96
  • Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress
    1985.262.2
  • Smiting god wearing an Egyptian atef crown
    1986.42
  • Cult vessel in the form of a tower with cylinder seal impressions near the top
    68.155
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: royal worshiper before a god on a throne; human-headed bulls below
    1991.368.5
  • Part of a throne with deity on a bull
    50.163
  • Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshipper
    1989.281.20
  • Bowl with a radiating petal design
    66.116
  • Incense burner
    49.71.2
  • Standing Male Figure
    1982.317.3
  • Votive plaque inscribed with Sabaean dedication
    1993.169
  • Arrowhead
    1991.314.4
  • Dress ornaments
    24.97.50
  • Relief: two servants bearing food and drink
    34.158
  • Fluted bowl
    54.3.1
  • Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
    54.3.3
  • Spouted jar
    60.20.15
  • Cup with a frieze of gazelles
    62.84
  • Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat
    1979.447
  • Top for standard
    1996.82.1
  • Tribute bearer with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
    60.145.11
  • Human-headed winged bull and winged lion (lamassu)
    32.143.1
  • Relief panel
    32.143.4
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: Ishtar image and a worshipper below a canopy flanked by winged genies
    1989.361.1
  • Panel with striding lion
    31.13.1
  • Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene
    43.135.2
  • Openwork furniture plaque with two sphinxes
    57.80.4a,b
  • Nude female figure
    34.126.53
  • Furniture plaque carved in relief with a “woman at the window”
    57.80.12
  • Jar
    64.286.5
  • Standard with two long-horned bulls
    55.137.5
  • Storage jar decorated with mountain goats
    59.52
  • Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees
    17.190.106
  • Kneeling bull holding a spouted vessel
    66.173
  • Headdress
    33.35.3
  • Standing male worshipper
    40.156
  • Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
    41.160.192
  • Statue of Gudea
    59.2
  • Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars
    1988.433.1
  • Bowl
    1985.356.19
  • Eye idol
    1988.323.8
  • Standing warrior
    1989.281.9
  • Foundation peg in the shape of the forepart of a lion
    48.180
  • Rock Crystal Belt Buckle
    1995.54
  • Ewer with Molded Inscription
    x.21.191
  • Bottle
    x.21.210
  • Animal flask
    1999.145
  • Bottle with molded designs of animals
    08.138.2
  • Glass Bowl in Millefiori Technique
    2001.266
  • Goblet with incised designs
    65.173.1
  • Ewer with Birds and Animals
    39.40.101
  • Footed bowl with eagle emblem
    91.1.1538
  • Polycandelon with Crosses
    2002.483.7
  • Bowl with Arabic Inscription,
    40.170.15
  • Panel with Inscription
    30.112.3
  • Bowl with wheel-cut facets
    59.34
  • Folio from a Qur'an manuscript
    29.160.23
  • Textile
    31.106.64
  • Bottle with sprinkler top
    1998.234
  • Bowl with Arabic Inscription,
    40.170.25
  • Mirror
    42.136
  • Calligraphic composition in the shape of a peacock: Folio from the Bellini Album
    67.266.7.8R
  • Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the
    50.12
  • Molded horse and rider with cheetah
    66.23
  • Dish with Bird, Rabbit and Quadruped Design
    1979.412
  • Spherical and Biconical Gold Beads
    1980.456,7
  • Fragment of a Bowl with a Horse and Rider
    1984.181
  • Ring of Leontios
    1982.282
  • Head of Emperor Constans (r. 337-350)
    67.107
  • Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
    30.45
  • Fragments of a Plate with Engraved Designs
    40.170.131
  • Painted dado panel
    40.170.176
  • Bowl
    65.270.1
  • Vessel with Pierced Designs
    1993.319
  • Slab
    66.81
  • Ewer with a Cock-Shaped Spout
    41.65
  • Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
    1996.294.1
  • Bowl with prince on horseback
    51.53
  • Fragment of a cornice panel
    40.170.441
  • Ewer with inscriptions and hunting scenes
    38.40.240
  • Basin with Figural Imagery
    91.1.521
  • Prophet Muhammad Preaching: Folio from the <em>Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul</em> of Lami'i Chelebi
    55.121.40
  • Dish depicting a wedding procession
    1983.247
  • Capital with Bust of the Archangel Michael
    1983.167
  • Keystone from a Vaulted Ceiling
    28.99.1
  • Icon with the Deesis
    17.190.133
  • Cross
    1998.542
  • Casket with Warriors and Mythological Figures
    17.190.237
  • Box with Sleeping Eros
    47.100.33
  • Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India
    17.190.56
  • Gold Solidus of Justinian I (527–65)
    99.35.7406
  • Jeweled Bracelet
    17.190.1670-1671
  • Revetments from an Icon of the Virgin
    17.190.644
  • Dish
    1979.210
  • Woven Tapestry Fragment
    50.83
  • Pair of Doors Carved in the 'Beveled Style'
    31.119.1,.2
  • The
    50.4
  • Medallion with Christ from an Icon Frame
    17.190.678
  • Leaf from a Gospel Book with Four Standing Evangelists
    57.185.3
  • Title Page of the Gospel of John
    38.171.2
  • The Attarouthi Treasure
    1986.3.1-15
  • Fragment of a Lintel
    69.15
  • Panel of a Diptych Announcing the Consulship of Justinian
    17.190.52,53
  • Plaques with Scenes from the Story of Joshua
    17.190.137a-c
  • Icon with the Koimesis
    17.190.132
  • Tip of a Pointer
    1997.235
  • Gospel with Silver Cover
    16.99
  • Pyxis depicting Christ's Entry into Jerusalem
    1971.39a,b
  • Pair of earrings
    1979.278.2a,b
  • Jar
    91.1.130
  • Ceramic Lantern
    91.1.138
  • Ewer with inscription, horsemen, and vegetal decoration
    91.1.586
  • Pierced globe
    17.190.2095a,b
  • Astrolabe of 'Umar ibn Yusuf ibn 'Umar ibn 'Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari
    91.1.535a-h
  • Mihrab (prayer niche)
    39.20
  • Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
    55.44
  • Pyx with the Women at Christ's Tomb
    17.190.57
  • Princely figure with jeweled crown
    67.119
  • Ewer
    44.15
  • Bowl depicting a Man holding a Cup and a Flowering Branch
    1977.126
  • Tiraz Fragment
    31.106.32
  • 13.152.6
  • 57.51.21
  • Yazdegird I Kicked to Death by the Water Horse: Folio from the <em>Shahnama</em> (Book of Kings)
    57.51.33
  • Animal-spouted pitcher
    38.40.247
  • Tile panel with sphinx
    1976.245
  • Tympanum with a Horse and Rider
    38.96
  • Capital
    36.68.1
  • Animal Flask
    69.153
  • Pyxis (cylindrical container)
    1998.298a,b
  • Plate
    91.1.1533
  • Tile with Image of Phoenix
    12.49.4
  • Book Cover with Byzantine Icon of the Crucifixion
    17.190.134
  • 57.51.23
  • Confronted Animal Rug
    1990.61
  • Stand for a Qur'an manuscript
    10.218
  • 33.70
  • Incense Burner of Amir Saif al-Dunya wa’l-Din ibn Muhammad al-Mawardi
    51.56
  • Bowl with astronomical and royal figures
    57.36.4
  • Armlet
    57.88a-c
  • Caftan
    1996.78.1
  • Ewer with dancing females within arcades
    67.10a,b
  • Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath
    17.190.396
  • The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke
    17.190.715ab
  • Icon with the Crucifixion
    17.190.44
  • Ewer with a Feline-Shaped Handle
    47.100.90
  • Beaker with relief-cut decoration
    1974.45
  • Bowl emulating Chinese stoneware
    63.159.4
  • <em>Tiraz</em> textile fragment from an <em>ikat</em> shawl
    29.179.9
  • Bowl with Arabic Inscription
    65.106.2
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