Clay tablet with seal impression depicting two goats in front of a building, Ashur, 12th – 11th c. BC, 6.5 x 6.7 cm.
Georges Liautaud, La sirène diamant [The Diamond Mermaid], forged and rolled iron, ca. 1960, 45.7 cm.
Ivory plaque with ram-headed sphinx in Phoenician style, Neo-Assyrian period (ca. 9th – 8th c. BC), 7.8 x 8 x 0.8 cm.
Ellipsoid carnelian stamp decorated with a scorpion, Sassanian period (224 – 677 AD), 2.4 x 1.9 x 1.3 cm.
Paper folio with ink, gold and opaque watercolours from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides showing a physician preparing an elixir, possibly from Baghdad, AD 1224, 33.2 x 24.8 cm.