Exhibition Type: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Striding lion with Eros child (one of a pair) (detail), Yemen, early 1st century BCE–mid-1st century CE, bronze, Gift of The American Foundation for the Study of Man (Wendell and Merilyn Phillips Collection), Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S2013.2.77.1
Detail, Pair of lions with erotes as riders; S2013.2.77.1–2
Weight in Form of a Cat, 305–30 BCE. Bronze, silver, lead, 2 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. Brooklyn Museum. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.424E
Detail, Amulet: the figure of Thoureis; Amulet; Possibly Ptolemaic Dynasty, 305-30 BCE; Clay; Egypt; Gift of Charles Lang Freer; Freer Gallery of Art F1908.222
The Cyrus Cylinder; Clay, Babylon, Mesopotamia, after 539 BCE; D x H: 7.8-10 x 21.9-22.8 cm; British Museum, London, ME 90920; Photo: ©The Trustees of the British Museum
Plate (detail), Iran, Sasanian period, Reign of Shapur II, 4th century, silver and gilt, Purchase—Charles Lang Freer Endowment, Freer Gallery of Art, F1934.23
St. Mark and St. Luke; Right cover of The Washington Manuscript of the Gospels, F1906.298