This gallery contains objects from the civilization of ancient Sumer dating to the fourth and third millennia BC. This was the time when cities were first built and writing was invented, the use of cylinder seals for administrative purposes began, and all areas of the arts developed.

A spouted vessel carved out of black limestone, decorated with colored stone mosaic inlay, Uruk. Ca. 3000 BC.

Limestone statues of two worshippers from a group of statues found together in the Square Temple at Tell-Asmar, Early Dynastic period. Ca. 2750 BC.