| Acknowledgements | 9 |
| Introduction | 11 |
| Map of Ancient Near East | 14 |
| Pt. 1 | Mesopotamia | |
| 1 | The Emergence of Sumerian Art: The Protoliterate Period (circa 3500-3000 B.C.) | 17 |
| Architecture | 18 |
| Applied Sculpture and Relief | 24 |
| Sculpture in the Round | 31 |
| Commemorative Relief | 33 |
| Cylinder Seals | 35 |
| 2 | The Early Dynastic Period (circa 3000-2340 B.C.) | 39 |
| Architecture | 42 |
| Sculpture in the Round | 45 |
| Engraving and Relief | 66 |
| Glyptic Art | 77 |
| 3 | The Akkadian Period (2340-2180 B.C.) | 83 |
| 4 | The Neo-Sumerian Period (2125-2025 B.C.) and the Period of Isin, Larsa, and Babylon (2025-1594 B.C.) | 93 |
| Lagash | 93 |
| The Third Dynasty of Ur | 101 |
| The Isin-Larsa Period | 107 |
| Hammurabi of Babylon | 119 |
| 5 | The Art of the Kassite Dynasty (circa 1600-1100 B.C.) | 127 |
| 6 | The Beginnings of Assyrian Art (circa 1350-1000 B.C.) | 131 |
| 7 | The Late Assyrian Period (circa 1000-612 B.C.) | 143 |
| Architecture | 143 |
| Sculpture in the Round | 152 |
| Relief and Painting | 156 |
| Applied Arts | 194 |
| 8 | The Neo-Babylonian Period (circa 612-539 B.C.) | 201 |
| Pt. 2 | The Peripheral Regions | |
| 9 | Asia Minor and the Hittites | 207 |
| Anatolia up to the Middle of the Second Millennium B.C. | 207 |
| The Hittite Empire (circa 1400-1200 B.C.) | 215 |
| Architecture | 215 |
| Sculpture | 221 |
| 10 | The Levant in the Second Millennium B.C. | 239 |
| Egyptian Predominance (2000-1800 B.C.) and Babylonian Penetration (1800-1700 B.C.) | 243 |
| The Mitannian Era (circa 1450-1360 B.C.) | 248 |
| The Hittite and Ramessid Era (1360-1150 B.C.) | 262 |
| 11 | Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria: North Syrian Art (850-650 B.C.) | 279 |
| Architecture | 282 |
| Sculpture | 290 |
| Phoenician and Syrian Art | 310 |
| Ivories | 313 |
| Metalwork | 322 |
| 12 | The Art of Ancient Persia | 333 |
| The Luristan Bronzes | 340 |
| Achaemenian Art | 348 |
| Notes | 381 |
| Bibliography | 413 |
| Supplementary Notes | 415 |
| Additional Bibliography and Abbreviations | 441 |
| List of Illustrations | 463 |
| Index | 473 |