Our #ObjectoftheWeek is the magical stele of Horus. Dating to the Ptolemaic Period in ancient Egypt, it offered protection from desert animals. On the back is a healing spell, while the front features young Horus.

📸 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1920, 20.2.23
#Egypt #Horus #Magic

Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a glazed amulet representing the head of the demon Pazuzu, found in ancient Nineveh. Dating to the Late Iron Age, ca. 700-500 BCE, it contains features of a lion, fish, and goat.

📸 ©The Trustees of the British Museum (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), 91873
#Mesopotamia #Nineveh #IronAge

Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a small copper bull figurine from the Temple of Baalat Gebal in ancient Byblos, Lebanon. Dating to ca. 1800–1700 BCE, it was part of a votive deposit known as the “Golden Calf” deposit.

📷️ ©2024 Louvre Museum, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn/Raphael Chipault
#Lebanon #Byblos #BronzeAge

Our #ObjectoftheWeek is a turquoise-glazed ceramic jug from Kashan, Iran (ca. 1215–16 CE), depicting harpies and sphinxes. Persian verses by poet Rukn al-Din Qummi are inscribed at the top, alongside an anonymous love poem near the base. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
#Iran #Persian #Pottery