“The Guennol Lioness is a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian statue found near Baghdad, Iraq. Depicting a well-muscled anthropomorphic lioness, it sold for $57.2 million at Sotheby’s auction house on December 5, 2007. The piece was acquired by private collector Alastair Bradley Martin in 1948 from the collection of Joseph Brummer, and has been on display in New York City’s Brooklyn Museum of Art ever since.”
As Wiki points out this was made around the invention of the wheel, the domestication of the horse, and the development of cuneiform writing.
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