Culture or time period
- Early Dynastic Period of Egypt (ca. 3000–2686 BC)24 objects
- Predynastic Period, Egypt (ca. 5300–3000 BC)23 objects
- Middle to Late Predynastic Period, Egypt (4000–3000 BC)19 objects
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt (1295–1186 BC)16 objects
- Classical Rome15 objects
- Roman Empire (27 BC–395 AD)15 objects
- 4th Dynasty of Egypt (2613–2494 BC)14 objects
- African cultures12 objects
- Naqada III/'Dynasty 0' (ca. 3200–3000 BC)12 objects
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt (2055–1650 BC)10 objects
- 12th Dynasty of Egypt (1985–1773 BC)9 objects
- 11th Dynasty of Egypt (2125–1985 BC)8 objects
- 7th & 8th Dynasties of Egypt (2181–2160 BC)8 objects
- 9th & 10th Dynasties of Egypt (2160–2055 BC)8 objects
- First Intermediate Period (ca. 2160–2055 BC)8 objects
- Western African cultures7 objects
- Yoruba5 objects
- Yoruba cluster5 objects
- Eastern African cultures4 objects
- Kenyan cultures4 objects