Ancient Near Eastern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 5,760 artworks
The collection spans the cultures of the ancient Near East from the Neolithic period through the Arab conquest in 651 AD. Highlights include Assyrian stone reliefs, Sumerian statuary, and objects from Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and the ancient Levant.
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Featured Artworks
Textile fragment: walking ram with a neckband and fluttering ribbons
ca. 7th century CE
Sword and scabbard
ca. 7th century CE
Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh
ca. 5th century CE
Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper
ca. 3rd century CE
Belt adornment with an eagle and its prey
ca.1st–2nd century CE
Standing man
ca. 2nd century CE
Funerary relief
ca. 2nd–3rd century CE
Door lintel with lion-griffins and vase with lotus leaf
ca. 2nd–early 3rd century CE
Belt clasp
ca. 1st–2nd century CE
Spout in the form of a man's head
ca. 1st–2nd century CE
Rhyton terminating in the forepart of a wild cat
ca. 1st century BCE
Figure of a reclining woman
ca. 2nd century BCE–2nd century CE
Relief: two servants bearing food and drink
ca. 358–338 BCE
Beaker with birds and animals
ca. 4th century BCE
Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature
ca. 5th century BCE
Plaque with horned lion-griffins
ca. 6th–4th century BCE
Incense burner
ca. mid-1st millennium BCE
Panel with striding lion
ca. 604–562 BCE
Figure of a man with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin
ca. 8th century BCE
Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshiper
ca. 8th–7th century BCE
Human-headed winged bull (lamassu)
ca. 883–859 BCE
Furniture plaque carved in relief with a “woman at the window”
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Furniture element carved in the round with the head of a roaring lion
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Openwork furniture plaque with two sphinxes
ca. 9th–8th century BC
Openwork furniture plaque with a grazing oryx in a forest of fronds
ca. 9th–8th century BCE
Statuette of a female
ca. early 1st millennium BCE
Orthostat relief: lion-hunt scene
ca. 10th−9th century BCE
Sickle sword
ca. 1307–1275 BCE
Seated goddess with a child
ca. 14th–13th century BCE
Enthroned deity
ca. 14th–13th century BCE
Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings
ca. 1500–1100 BCE
Royal or divine figure with high conical headdress
ca. 18th–17th century BCE
Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls
ca. 18th century BCE
Cult vessel in the form of a tower with cylinder seal impressions near the top
ca. 19th century BCE
Weight in shape of frog
ca. 2000–1600 BCE
Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”
ca. 2090 BCE
Foundation peg in the form of the forepart of a lion
ca. 2200–2100 BCE
Shaft-hole axe head with bird-headed demon, boar, and dragon
ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE
Beaker with birds on the rim
ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE
Cylinder seal and modern impression: hunting scene
ca. 2250–2150 BCE
Seated female
ca. late 3rd–early 2nd millennium BCE
Head of a ruler
ca. 2300–2000 BCE
Headdress
ca. 2600–2500 BCE
Reclining mouflon
ca. 2600–1900 BCE
Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees
ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium BCE
Standing male worshiper
ca. 2900–2600 BCE
Stele of Ushumgal and Shara-igizi-Abzu
2900–2700 BCE
Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots
ca. 3000 BCE