GENERAL MERCHANDISE

Léon Bakst
Landscape with Shepherds, Set Design for Daphnis et Chloé(detail), 1911
Watercolor on paper
H. 33.3 cm; W. 50.2 cm.
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen, 1922: 22.226.2
Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image source: Art Resource, NY

Bricks with a protective bull-man and cuneiform inscription.
Middle Elamite Period, Shutrukid Dynasty (reign of Kutir-Nahhunte and Shilhak-Inshushinak, ca. 1150–1120 BCE).
Molded baked clay.
Susa, Iran.
H. 139 cm; W. 36 cm; D. 33 cm.
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Antiquités orientales: Sb 21960.
Photo: Franck Raux. © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY.

Vessel
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1400–1300 BCE
Core-formed, trail-decorated, and tooled glass with applied decoration
Probably Egypt
H. 10.7 cm; Diam. max. 5 cm.
The Corning Museum of Glass: 66.1.213
Collection of The Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

Walter Andrae.
Partial reconstruction of the throne room façade from Nebuchadnezzar II’s Southern Palace showing fitters’marks on bricks (detail).
1901 CE.
Watercolor on paper.
H. 31.6 cm; W. 70.6 cm.
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, Berlin: ArDOG V.28.18.
© Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, Archiv;
Photographer Olaf M. Teßmer.

Mug featuring design by Laura Grey with inspiration from patterns found in objects from the exhibition: Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond.

(c) Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, photographer Andrea Brizzi

Architectural model, 4600–3900 BCE, ceramic, Căscioarele, Romania, L. 51 cm, W. 13 cm, H. 24.2, National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest, Romania: 12156.

Breast ornament including pectoral and two fibulae, 600–400 BCE.

Face pot, 5200–5000 BCE, ceramic, Biatorbágy-Tyúkberek, Hungary, H. 31.2 cm, Diam. 11 cm (rim), Diam. 8.5 cm (base), Budapest History Museum, Budapest, Hungary: 2019.13.36.1.

Shahnamah
Iskandar Encounters the Angel Israfil (detail)
Author: Abu al-Qasim Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025)
Copyist: Muhammad al-Katib al-Qiwam Shirazi
Language: Persian
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
folio: H. 45.2 cm; W. 30.2 cm. Probably Turkey, 1562–1583
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Purchase—Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler: S1986.256

Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE).
Marble,
H. 8.9 cm; W. 5.1 cm; D. 3.8 cm.
Africa (?), 100 BCE–100 CE.
Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund: 54.162.
Photo: Brooklyn Museum, by Gavin Ashworth.

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