Glazed Tiles, Iron Age, 8th-7th century BC
Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 3
January 2, 2022 (Sun) - March 6, 2022 (Sun)
This section of the gallery features ancient art and artifacts from regions that gave rise to some of humanity’s earliest civilizations, including West Asia, Egypt, and the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptian collection includes stoneware and earthenware objects from Pre-dynastic Egypt (circa 6000–3150 BC) as well as reliefs, mummies, and decorative art from Dynastic Egypt. Other objects frequently on view include Bronze Age burial goods from West Asia and the eastern Mediterranean, tablets bearing cuneiform script from Mesopotamia, and sculptures and pottery from ancient Iran.
Designation | Name | Creation/ Excavation/ Provenance |
Period | Acquisition/ Ownership/ Accession Number |
CMT | ||
Highlight | Jar with Wavy Handles | Egypt | Predynastic period, 4th millennium BC | TJ-2369 | |||
Highlight | Tomb Relief of Iny | Excavated at Saqqara, Egypt | Old Kingdom 6th dynasty, ca. 23rd century BC | TJ-5799 | |||
Highlight | “Eye Idols” | Excavated at Tell Brak, Syria | Late Chalcolithic 3 Period, ca. 3800-3600 BC | Gift of Ms. Furusawa Shizuko, TJ-5734 | |||
Highlight | Foundation Peg with a God Figure | Excavated in southern Iraq | Sumerian Early Dynastic period, ca. 2400 BC | TJ-5597 | |||
Highlight | Glazed Tiles | Northwestern Iran | Iron Age, 8th-7th century BC | TJ-5678 | |||
Highlight | Gold ornaments | Iran | Achaemenid period, 6th-4th century BC | TJ-5798 | |||
Highlight | Cut-Glass Bowl with Circles | Iran | Sasanian period, 5th-7th century | Gift of Mr. Momose Osamu and Mrs. Momose Fumiko , TJ-5837 | |||
Highlight | Cut-Glass Plate | Iran, Iran | Sasanian period, 5th-7th century | Private collection | |||
Highlight | Mummy of Pasherienptah | Excavated at Thebes, Egypt | 22nd dynasty, ca. 945-730 BC | Gift of Egyptian Department of Antiquities, TJ-1835 | |||
Highlight | Statue of Lion-headed Goddess Sakhmet | Excavated at Thebes, Egypt | New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, 16th-14th century BC | TC-422-1 | |||
Heracles | Excavated at Hatra, Iraq | Parthian period, 1st-2nd century | Gift of the Iraqi Government, TJ-4822 | ||||
Highlight | Elliptical Bowl | Iran | Sasanian period, 5th–7th century | TE-966 | |||
Highlight | Cut Glass Goblet | Mesopotamia, Found in Iran | Sasanian period, 5th–7th century | Gift of Mr. Matsumoto Tōru, TJ-4865 |