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Although relatively small in size, the museumıs holdings of Ancient and Asian art include some of the most significant works in the Dartmouth College collection. Among these are an extraordinary set of six limestone reliefs, acquired in 1854, from the palace of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE), a Panathenaic prize amphora attributed to the Athenian artist known as the Berlin Painter, and a group of Early Christian floor mosaics from Homs, in Syria. The various artistic traditions of Asia are represented by works from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and India. This area of the collection is strongest in bronzes, ceramics, and works on paper, and includes several superb Chinese tomb figures and a fine group of eighteenth and nineteenth-century Japanese woodblock prints.
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