Egypt and Western Asia
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Figure with Shield
Ca. 600–480 BC (Gift of Mr. Tanimura Keisuke)Asian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 3
May 27, 2025 (Tue) - September 7, 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 | ||
| Highlight | Tomb Relief of Iny | Excavated in Saqqara, Egypt | Old Kingdom 6th dynasty, ca. 23rd century BC | TJ-5799 | |||
| Highlight | Greek Pottery Shards | Found in Naucratis, Egypt | 26th dynasty of Egypt, ca. 6th century BC | Gift of the University of Pennsylvania, TJ-1713 | |||
| Highlight | Figure with Shield | Cyprus | Ca. 600–480 BC | Gift of Mr. Tanimura Keisuke, TJ-5521-10 | |||
| Highlight | Eye Idol | Reportedly excavated at Tell Brak, Syria | Late Chalcolithic 3 Period, ca.3800–3600 BC | Gift of Ms. Furusawa Shizuko, TJ-5734 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Mummy of Pasherienptah | Excavated at Thebes, Egypt | 22nd dynasty, ca. 945–730 BC | Gift of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, TJ-1835 | ||||
| Highlight | Part of a Crown | Egypt | 24th–25th dynasty, ca. 8th century BC | Gift of Mr. Momose Osamu and Mrs. Momose Fumiko, TJ-5883 | |||
| Highlight | Man | Cyprus, Previously owned by Somerset Maugham | Cypro-Archaic period, 6th century BC | Gift of Mr. Michael Xilas and Mrs. Vicky Xilas, TJ-5930 | |||
| Highlight | The Goddess Sekhmet | Excavated at Thebes, Egypt | New Kingdom (18th Dynasty; reign of Amenhotep III), ca. 1388–1350 BC | TC-422-1 | |||
| Heracles | Excavated at Hatra, Iraq | Parthian period, 1st–2nd century | Gift of the Iraqi Government, TJ-4822 |