Objects

Terracotta statuette covered in pastilles, Djenné-Djeno (Niger River Valley), 13th c. AD, 17 cm

Marble funerary veiled female bust, Cyrene, Hellenistic period (1st c. BC), 128 x 62 cm.

Glazed ceramic mosque lamp with 12 branches, Msellata (Tripolitania), Islamic Era, 53.5 x Ø 29 cm.

Terracotta animal statuette, Ténenkou Cercle (Inner Niger Delta), 14th – 15th c. AD, 38.5 cm

Terracotta female figurine, Halaf, 6th millennium BC, 8.8 cm.

Baked clay votive figurines, Euphrates region, Early Bronze Age IV (2300 – 2000 BC), max. height 21.8 cm.

Alabaster statue of a Mari woman with eyes inlaid with shell and blue stone (lapis lazuli), Mari, ca. 2350 BC, 36 cm.

Alabaster statue of a Mari man with eyes inlaid with shell and blue stone (lapis lazuli), Mari, ca. 2400 BC, 40 cm.

Alabaster ‘Eye Idols’, Eye Temple (Tell Brak), 3200 BC, 4 x 2.6 x 0.5 cm.

Bronze statuette of a man marching with an arm raised high and the head covered with gold appliqués, Ugarit, ca. 1300 BC, 12 cm.