Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)923 objects
- Ancient Near East921 objects
- West Asian cultures921 objects
- Babylonian640 objects
- Old Babylonian (ca. 1900–1600 BC)381 objects
- Sumerian263 objects
- Ur III (ca. 2100–2000 BC)255 objects
- Neo-Babylonian (636–539 BC)224 objects
- Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1900 BC)18 objects
- Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400–1000 BC)16 objects
- Achaemenid (547–331 BC)8 objects
- Assyrian6 objects
- Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911–612 BC)5 objects
- Akkadian4 objects
- Early Dynastic III (ca. 2700–2340 BC)4 objects
- Early Dynastic IIIb (2500–2340 BC)4 objects
- Early Dynastic Period (ca. 2900–2340 BC)4 objects
- Lagash II (ca. 2200–2100 BC)4 objects
- Old Akkadian (ca. 2340–2200 BC)4 objects
- Ancient Egyptian2 objects