Egypt and Western Asia
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Making Beer and Bread
Upper Egypt, Middle Kingdom, ca. 2025–1794 BCAsian Gallery (Toyokan) Room 3
April 21, 2026 (Tue) - July 12, 2026 (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 | Making Beer and Bread | Upper Egypt | Middle Kingdom, ca. 2025–1794 BC | TJ-4876 | |||
| Highlight | Girl Carrying Offerings | Upper Egypt | Middle Kingdom, ca. 2025–1794 BC | TJ-4874 | |||
| Highlight | Model Oar Boat | Upper Egypt | Middle Kingdom, ca. 2025–1794 BC | TJ-4873 | |||
| Highlight | Checking the Stock at a Granary | Upper Egypt | Middle Kingdom, ca. 2025–1794 BC | TJ-4875 | |||
| 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 | Tiles with Multicolor Glazes | Northwestern Iran | Iron Age, 8th–7th century BC | TJ-5678 | |||
| 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 | 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 |