Presages of the Millennium

Terracotta sculpture, known as an eye idol, probably from the Mesopotamian site of Tell Brak in northeastern Syria, where thousands of such sculptures were found in a part of the s...

Spherical black stone (basalt or hematite?) weight, flattened on both sides. One side bears a value mark of three small circles in a triangular arrangement....

Spherical black stone (basalt or hematite?) weight, flattened on both sides. One side bears a value mark of three small circles in a triangular arrangement. There is a scratch on o...

Waisted cup with flared, everted rim supported on an elaborate hollow stem with a wide cylindrical midsection perforated with five rows of vertical slits; thinly potted, lightly bu...

Waisted cup with flared lip supported on an elongated hollow stem perforated with alternating columns of circular and triangular openings; thinly potted, lightly burnished blackene...