Category
page 1Ancient Near and Middle East clay objects
Cyrus cylinder
ancient cylinder covered with Akkadian cuneiform script
oil lamp
object used to produce light continuously for a period of time using an oil-based fuel source
bulla
inscribed token used in commercial and legal documentation as a form of authentication
Burney Relief
historical artifact
Taylor and Sennacherib Prisms
Records of the Assyrian king Sennacherib
Cylinder of Nabonidus
clay cylinders with cuneiform inscriptions of king Nabonidus
Execration texts
ancient Egyptian ritual writing
funerary cone
sculpture
clay nail
symbolic item buried under foundations to consecrate the building in Sumerian culture

Weld-Blundell Prism
ancient prism inscribed with Sumerian kings
Rassam cylinder
cuneiform cylinder written by Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal
Gudea cylinders
lagash cylinders

Antiochus cylinder
a devotional cylinder written in traditional Akkadian by Antiochus I Soter, c. 250 BCE
El-Amra clay model of cattle
Predynastic Egyptian sculpture