Culture or time period
- Old World (Africa, Asia and Europe)920 objects
- Ancient Near East917 objects
- West Asian cultures917 objects
- Babylonian638 objects
- Old Babylonian (ca. 1900–1600 BC)381 objects
- Sumerian262 objects
- Ur III (ca. 2100–2000 BC)254 objects
- Neo-Babylonian (636–539 BC)222 objects
- Early Old Babylonian (ca. 2000–1900 BC)18 objects
- Middle Babylonian (ca. 1400–1000 BC)16 objects
- American cultures12 objects
- North American cultures11 objects
- Achaemenid (547–331 BC)8 objects
- Asian cultures8 objects
- New World (the Americas and Oceania)7 objects
- North American historic cultures7 objects
- Peruvian sequence7 objects
- South America7 objects
- United States Historic7 objects
- Assyrian5 objects