Gobeklitepe, Pre-pottery Neolithic T-shaped limestone pillar from cult building. SE Turkey. ca 9000 BC.

Uruk (Warka) 3300–3000 B.C.; Late Uruk period- Excavated from the Eanna Precinct. Boulder stele with “priest-king” hunting lions

Gobeklitepe, Pre-pottery Neolithic Circular cult buildings built of limestone SE Turkey. ca 9000 BC.

Catalhoyuk, Central Turkey. Late Neolithic settlement7000-6300 BC with mudbrick houses.

Ain Ghazal, Jordan ca 7300-6500 BC.Human-formed statues made of plaster and bundles of reeds

Clay figurine from Catalhoyuk (central Turkey), excavated in a grain bin from the Late Neolithic levels (ca 7000-6300 BC)

Uruk (Warka) 3300–3000 B.C.; Late Uruk period- Excavated from the Eanna Precinct. Carved alabaster vase Ur (Tell el Mugayyar), Royal Tombs of Ur,

Standard of Ur made of shell, lapis lazuli, bitumen, limestone, wood

Late Uruk Period cone mosaics (stone and clayvarieties). From Tell al Ubaid and Uruk.ca 3300-3000 BC

Babylon, Ishtar Gate glazed, molded brick decaroation of the walls. Neo-BabylonianPeriod, time of Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC)

Stele of Eannatum. ca. 2460 BC. from Girsu (Telloh), fragments

Stele of Naram Sin. Found in Susa, Iranca. 2254-2218 BC

Khafajah (ancient Tutub), Temple OvalReconstruction. Early Dynastic II period2750-2600 BC

Ur, Sanctuary of the Moon God Nanna (Sin in Akkadian) at the time of the Third Dynastyof Ur (ca 2050 BC)

Babylonian “map of the world”Early to mid 1st millennium BC, probably from Borsippa, Southern Iraq

Kassite map of the city of Nippur on clay, from Nippur.Late Bronze age (14th c. BC).

Tell Asmar (ancient Eshnunna), Early Dynastic II-IIIAbu temple statues, found as a hoard under the altarca. 2700-2500 BC

Statue of Gudea dedicated to Ningirsu,from Telloh (ancient Girsu)ca 2100 BC

Balawat gate Bronzes from a monumental buildingin Tell Balawat (ancient Imgur Enlil). The panel that represents the events at the Source of the TigrisReign of Shalmaneser III (859-824 BC)

Yazilikaya, Hattusha, 14-13th c. BCHittite Rock-cut sanctaury with representationsof gods.