Tomb Relief of Iny, Excavated at Saqqara, Egypt, Old Kingdom 6th dynasty, ca. 23rd century BC
Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 3
October 18, 2022 (Tue) - January 15, 2023 (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 |
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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 | Fragments of a Woman's Headdress | Probably found at Thebes, Egypt | New Kingdom (18th dynasty), ca. 15th century BC | TJ-5677 | |||
Highlight | Foundation Peg with a God Figure | Excavated in southern Iraq | Sumerian Early Dynastic period, ca. 2400 BC | TJ-5597 | |||
Highlight | Plaque with a Bull | Excavated from Nimrud, Iraq | Neo-Assyrian period, 8th century BC | Gift of Iraqi Government, TJ-4806 | |||
Highlight | Battle Axe | Late 2nd–early 1st millennium BC | TJ-625-7 | ||||
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 | Patella Cup | The eastern Mediterranean region, Excavated in the eastern Mediterranean region | 1st century BC–1st century AD | Gift of Mr. Momose Osamu and Mrs. Momose Fumiko, TJ-5833 | |||
Highlight | Head of a Man | Excavated in the eastern Mediterranean region or Carthage | 5th–4th century BC | TJ-5496 | |||
Highlight | Mummy of Pasherienptah | Excavated at Thebes, Egypt | 22nd dynasty, ca. 945-730 BC | Gift of Egyptian Department of Antiquities, TJ-1835 | |||
Highlight | Shabti of a Priest | Egypt | Late period, ca. 664–332 BC | Gift of Mr. Momose Osamu and Mrs. Momose Fumiko, TJ-5873 | |||
Highlight | Baboon | Egypt | 11th–4th century BC | Gift of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, TJ-1863 | |||
Highlight | Statue of Lion-headed Goddess Sakhmet | Excavated at Thebes, Egypt | New Kingdom, 18th dynasty, 16th-14th century BC | TC-422-1 | |||
Highlight | Heracles | Excavated at Hatra, Iraq | Parthian period, 1st-2nd century | Gift of the Iraqi Government, TJ-4822 | |||
Highlight | Dish, Design of a humped bull | Iran, Excavated in Iran | Late Hellenistic–Parthian period, second half of 3rd–first half of 1st century BC | TJ-5805 |