Egypt and Western Asia
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Tiles with Multicolor Glazes
Northwestern Iran, Iron Age, 8th–7th century BCAsian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 3
September 9, 2025 (Tue) - December 21, 2025 (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 | ||
| Tomb Relief of Iny | Excavated in Saqqara, Egypt | Old Kingdom 6th dynasty, ca. 23rd century BC | TJ-5799 | ||||
| Highlight | Handled Knife | Found in Faiyum, Egypt | Old Kingdom, ca. 2560–2420 BC | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr , TJ-263 | |||
| Highlight | Sickle Blade | Found in Faiyum, Egypt | Predynastic period, ca. 4200–3300 BC | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr , TJ-299 | |||
| Highlight | Concave-Based Arrowhead | Found in Faiyum, Egypt | Neolithic period, ca. 5500–4000 BC | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr , TJ-303 | |||
| Triangular Arrowhead or Adze | Found in Faiyum, Egypt | Neolithic period, ca. 5500–4200 BC | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr , TJ-310-1 | ||||
| Celtiform Axe | Found in Faiyum, Egypt | Neolithic period, ca. 5500–4200 BC | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr , TJ-310-2 | ||||
| Leaf-Shaped Point | Found in Faiyum, Egypt | Neolithic period, ca. 5500–4200 BC | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr , TJ-310-3 | ||||
| Handaxe | Found in Somalia, Africa | Paleolithic period, ca. 1.7 million–50,000 years ago | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, TJ-2917-1 | ||||
| Handaxe | Found in Somalia, Africa | Paleolithic period, ca. 1.7 million–50,000 years ago | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, TJ-2917-2 | ||||
| Core | Found in Somalia, Africa | Paleolithic period, ca. 1.7 million–50,000 years ago | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, TJ-2917-3 | ||||
| Core | Found in Somalia, Africa | Paleolithic period, ca. 1.7 million–50,000 years ago | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, TJ-2917-4 | ||||
| Flake | Found in Somalia, Africa | Paleolithic period, ca. 1.7 million–50,000 years ago | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, TJ-2917-5 | ||||
| Core | Found in Somalia, Africa | Paleolithic period, ca. 1.7 million–50,000 years ago | Gift of Mr. Heywood Walter Seton-Karr, TJ-2917-6 | ||||
| Highlight | Mother Goddess | Syria or Iraq | Ubaid period, 5th millennium BC | TJ-5531-1 | |||
| Foundation Peg with a God Figure | Southern Iraq | Sumerian Early Dynastic period, ca. 2400 BC | TJ-5597 | ||||
| Highlight | Plaque with a Bull | Found in Nimrud, Iraq | Neo-Assyrian period, 8th century BC | Gift of the Iraqi Government, TJ-4806 | |||
| Highlight | Tiles with Multicolor Glazes | Northwestern Iran | Iron Age, 8th–7th century BC | TJ-5678 | |||
| Highlight | Ornament | Iran | Achaemenid period, 6th–4th century BC | TJ-5798 | |||
| Highlight | Three Bottles Combined | Eastern Mediterranean | Roman period, 2nd century | Gift of Shirayori Susumu, TJ-5988 | |||
| Highlight | Head of a Man | Eastern Mediterranean or Carthage | 5th–4th century BC | TJ-5496 | |||
| Mummy of Pasherienptah | Excavated at Thebes, Egypt | 22nd dynasty, ca. 945–730 BC | Gift of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, TJ-1835 | ||||
| Highlight | Heracles | Excavated at Hatra, Iraq | Parthian period, 1st–2nd century | Gift of the Iraqi Government, TJ-4822 |