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Historical Archive: Culture/Period Index This index includes objects identifiable only by culture as well as datable ones. For strict chronology regardless of culture, see the Chronological Index Neolithic, Ancient Near East, and Egypt to 1st c. BCE Greek, c.600 BCE to 1st c. BCE Scythian, Black Sea, Cypriot, and Celtic, 6th-3rd c. BCE Etruscan, 'Italic', c.600 BCE-1st c. BCE 1st c. BCE to 5th c. CE: Roman period, not including explicitly Christian material 3rd to 5th c. explicitly Christian (Early Christian) Sasanian Empire, 224 to 651 Byzantine Empire, late 4th to 15th c. Continental 5th to 8th c.: Merovingian, Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Lombard, and Avar British Isles, 6th to mid-11th c.: Anglo-Saxon and other Insular objects Continental late 8th to late 10th c.: Carolingian period Islamic 7th to 20th c. 11th and 12th centuries: Ottonian, Capetian, Romanesque, Gothic 13th to 15th century: Gothic and Renaissance (Early Modern) 16th and 17th centuries: Renaissance and Baroque Chinese 1644-1911: Qing Dynasty 18th and 19th centuries 20th century Stele of Naram-Sin, pink limestone, 2254-2218 BCE, Louvre Spitzer Cross, copper gilt and enamel, French c.1190, CMA 1923.1051 Harvey Littleton (American, b. 1922), Blue Crown, pulled and cased glass, 1988, IMA 1991.221a-l