Detail, Pair of lions with erotes as riders; S2013.2.77.1–2
Exhibition Type: Ancient Near Eastern Art
Weight in Form of a Cat, 305–30 BCE. Bronze, silver, lead, 2 1/4 x 1 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. Brooklyn Museum. Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.424E
Detail, Amulet: the figure of Thoureis; Amulet; Possibly Ptolemaic Dynasty, 305-30 BCE; Clay; Egypt; Gift of Charles Lang Freer; Freer Gallery of Art F1908.222
The Cyrus Cylinder; Clay, Babylon, Mesopotamia, after 539 BCE; D x H: 7.8-10 x 21.9-22.8 cm; British Museum, London, ME 90920; Photo: ©The Trustees of the British Museum
Detail, Plate; Metalwork, Vessel; 4th century; Sasanian period; Silver and gilt; H x Diam: 5 x 24 cm (1 15/16 x 9 7/16 in); Iran; Purchase; Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery; F1934.23
St. Mark and St. Luke; Right cover of The Washington Manuscript of the Gospels, F1906.298
Detail, Pair of lions with erotes as riders; Figure; early 1st century BCE-mid 1st century CE; Bronze; Yemen; Gift of The American Foundation for the Study of Man (Wendell and Merilyn Phillips Collection); Arthur M. Sackler Gallery S2013.2.77.1-2.
Detail, Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) by Amir Khusraw Dihlavi (d. 1325); The abduction by sea; Detached manuscript folio; Artist: Attributed to Kamal al-Din Bihzad (ca. 1467 - 1535); Timurid period, 1496; Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; Afghanistan, Herat; Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment; Freer Gallery of Art F1937.27.
Detail, Jar; S1998.21