Bowl with painted decoration

Bowl with painted decoration

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Damb Sadaat, located in Baluchistan, was outside the area controlled by the cities of the Indus Valley. Similarities in ceramic form and design, however, show that these areas were in contact during the middle and late third millennium B.C.

Ancient Near Eastern Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Met's Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art cares for approximately 7,000 works ranging in date from the eighth millennium B.C. through the centuries just beyond the emergence of Islam in the seventh century A.D. Objects in the collection were created by people in the area that today comprises Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, the Eastern Mediterranean coast, Yemen, and Central Asia. From the art of some of the world's first cities to that of great empires, the department's holdings illustrate the beauty and craftsmanship as well as the profound interconnections, cultural and religious diversity, and lasting legacies that characterize the ancient art of this vast region.