May 26 through August 27, 2017
This exhibition presents Mesopotamian sculptural works from ca. 3300–2250 B.C., bringing together for the first time pieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Yale University Babylonian Collection, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
Head of a Lion, Mesopotamia, Sumerian, Ur, Dromos of Queen Puabi’s Tomb, Early Dynastic IIIa, ca. 2550–2400 B.C., silver, lapis lazuli, and shell. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia B17064.