Ancient Near and Middle East clay objects

ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script

object used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source

inscribed token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication

historical artifact

Records of the Assyrian king Sennacherib

clay cylinders with cuneiform inscriptions of king Nabonidus

ancient Egyptian ritual writing

sculpture

symbolic item buried under foundations to consecrate the building in Sumerian culture

ancient prism inscribed with Sumerian kings

cuneiform cylinder written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal

lagash cylinders

a devotional cylinder written in traditional Akkadian by Antiochus I Soter, c. 250 BCE

Predynastic Egyptian sculpture