Objects

Stone inlay depicting a human-headed bull, Ebla, ca. 2400 BC, 10 x 15 cm.

Red limestone stamp and seal impression, Hassek province (Tell Brak), Late Chalcolithic (ca. 3800 – 3500 BC), 6.75 x 5.5 x 10 cm.

Bronze Antoninianus coin with a radiated bust of Emperor Gallienus, Sura (Raqqa), AD 261 – 268, Ø 2.2 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.

Clay foundation cone with cuneiform inscription, Uruk, 19th c. BC, H 5.3 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.

Green-blue glazed jar, southern Iraq, AD 632 – 1258.

Beaded necklace, Uruk, 8th – 6th c. BC, Ø 10 cm.

Gold earring with jasper and carnelian beads, Ashur, 14th – 13th c. BC, L 3.5 cm.