Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The institution holding most of the objects documented on this site. Its open collection records are the source for their details, and the photographs are the museum's own, under CC0.
Address checked on 22.10.2026 · Visiting details, hours and tickets are on the museum's own site only; this site does not store them.
Objects
On display here per the records 8
Display status is what the public record said on the day it was checked; confirm on the museum's site before visiting. What do held, displayed and loaned mean?
Object
Cypriot amphora with a Phoenician inscription
A Cypriot vessel, a Phoenician inscription and a findspot nobody recorded: one object that teaches us to separate what is written on it from where it came from.
Gallery 171, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Object
Syrian glass jug with cobalt trails
A small blue-green glass jug with blue trails around the rim and neck. The record gives a three-century range that crosses the site's boundary between "Roman" and "Byzantine", so the jug is not placed on the timeline.
Gallery 171, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Object
Scarab with a crocodile-headed figure
A small seal-amulet of glazed steatite that the museum records "From Canaan, Levant" and dates by an Egyptian dynasty. Place, dating scheme and culture are three separate questions here.
Gallery 111, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Object
Bronze coin of Cyzicus
A Roman civic coin from Asia Minor: a bust of Alexander Severus on one side, a table with imperial busts and sacrificial implements on the other. The coin that accompanies the article on coins and hoards as a comparison, not as a coin from the hoard.
Gallery 168, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Object
Small serpentinite axe from Crete
A polished stone tool less than five centimetres long, which the record describes in one word: "celt". A Neolithic object from Crete that recalls how long the Neolithic is outside the Levant too.
Gallery 171, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Object
Roman mold-blown glass jug
A turquoise-green glass jug 9.5 cm high, blown in a four-part mold. The record documents the mold seams on the vessel but does not say where the jug came from; it is therefore recorded in the region "place not stated".
Gallery 168, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Object
Scarab amulet from Lisht
A one-centimetre amulet of glazed faience found in the debris of a tomb at Lisht South. The record documents an exact findspot and a display in Gallery 109; what it lacks is an open photograph.
Gallery 109, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Text frame in place of a photograph
Blue-green glazed faiencel. 1 cm (3/8 in)
The source record has no image
Object
Shabti from the tomb of Sennedjem
An uninscribed limestone figurine found in the tomb of Sennedjem at Deir el-Medina in the excavations of 1885-86. The museum dates it to the reign of Ramesses II and displays it in Gallery 126.
Gallery 126, The Met Fifth Avenue · According to the museum record as read on 22.10.2026; display changes, so check before visiting.
Objects
Held here per the records 6
Holder details from the official record; the link opens the institution's website.
Object
Canaanite jar
A large Late Bronze Age clay jar that the museum records as "Canaanite" and "Levant" with no findspot. A pointed base and two handles: a form made for storage and transport, which says something about the vessel before anyone knows where it came from.
Held here, per the record
Object
Roman terracotta oil lamp
A small mold-made lamp with a locust eating grapes on the discus. The record proposes "probably Syria-Palestine" as the place of manufacture, not a findspot.
Held here, per the record
Object
Cypriot jug with white-painted decoration
A small clay jug with white decoration, dated to the Middle Cypriot period. The site has no Cypriot period scheme yet, so the jug appears in a list by source date.
Held here, per the record
Object
Bronze spearhead from Cyprus
A leaf-shaped blade with a pronounced midrib and a socket with two rivet holes. The record even describes the fabric impression left on the socket; what it lacks is a findspot.
Held here, per the record
Object
Ivory plaque from Nimrud with two sphinxes
An ivory furniture plaque excavated in 1962 at Fort Shalmaneser, Nimrud: two sphinxes flanking a cartouche. The record attributes the style to the Phoenician and notes that none of the inlays survived.
Held here, per the record
Object
Gold daric with a king
A small gold coin of the Achaemenid empire, assigned by the museum to Iran and dated to the fourth century BCE. The figure is a "king" per the record's title; more than that the record does not say.
Held here, per the record
What this site draws from the museum's records
The Met's public collection records are the source for the objects on this page: title, dating as worded, material, dimensions, geography as recorded, accession number and display status. Every object page quotes its record and links to it. Photographs appear only where the museum marks them as public domain (Open Access, CC0) under its image policy. Source 1.
"On view" and "Not on view"
The record states whether the object is currently on view and in which gallery ("On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 171") or "Not on view". This site copies the status as read on the day it was checked and states the date; check the museum's site before a visit, because displays change. The linked article explains held, displayed and loaned.
What this page does not claim
This page gathers the objects this site has documented from the museum's open collection, each linked to its original record. Hours, prices and visiting details are on the museum's site only.
Source
Sources and further reading
The research and references behind this page. Rights to external content remain with their owners.
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Image and Data Resources: Open Access (The Metropolitan Museum of Art policy page)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Checked
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Terracotta amphora with Phoenician inscription, collection record 74.51.2300
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Shabti, Tomb of Sennedjem (TT 1), collection record 86.1.23
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Terracotta oil lamp, collection record 74.51.2256
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