Culture or time period
- Ancient Near East972 objects
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)972 objects
- West Asian cultures972 objects
- Babylonian678 objects
- Old Babylonian (ca. 1900–1600 BC)429 objects
- Sumerian255 objects
- Ur III (ca. 2100–2000 BC)245 objects
- Neo-Babylonian (636–539 BC)221 objects
- Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400–1000 BC)16 objects
- Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1900 BC)12 objects
- Assyrian11 objects
- Neo-Assyrian (ca. 911–612 BC)10 objects
- Sasanian (ca. 224–641 AD)10 objects
- Achaemenid (547–331 BC)9 objects
- Akkadian9 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