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Home>Collection & Louvre Palace>Curatorial Departments>Near Eastern Antiquities
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- Image: Code de Hammurabi, roi de Babylone
- Image: Frise des archers
- Image: Antiquités orientales - Gudea, prince de Lagash, Statue assise dédiée au dieu Ningishzida
- Image: Stèle du "Baal au foudre"
- Image: Chapiteau d'une colonne de la salle d'audiences (Apadana), du Palais de Darius Ier
- Image: Statue de l'intendant Ebih-il
- Image: Couvercle de pyxide, Déesse nourissant des caprins
- Image: Pendeloque, Représentant une divinité hittite
Collections & departments Department of Near Eastern Antiquities
The historical and geographical context of our collection spans a nine-thousand year period from prehistory to the early Islamic Period, and encompasses an area stretching from North Africa to the Indus Valley and Central Asia, and from the Black Sea (Anatolia) to the Arabian peninsula (as far as the Indian Ocean).
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Worshipper
Cypro-Classical (second quarter of 5th century BC)
Idalium
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Woman's funerary stele
AD 143
Hauran (Southern Syria)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Woman carrying a child in a cradle
Middle Bronze Age (2000-1600 BC)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Winged human-headed bull
Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Sargon II (721-705 BC)
Khorsabad, ancient Dur Sharrukin, Assyria,...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Winged bull between two floral...
Circa 510 BC
Palace of Darius I, Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Pasikles
Weight in the shape of a...
522-486 BC
The Acropolis, Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Akkadian Period, c. 2250 BC
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Vessel handle in the form of a...
4th century BC
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Vase in the shape of a hump-backed...
Between the fourteenth and twelfth centuries BC
Marlik area, on southwestern shore of the...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Vase from Amathus
Cypriot archaic period, circa 6th century BC
Acropolis of Amathus, Cyprus
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Vase depicting a leopard fighting...
Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC
Southeast Iran (?)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Vase decorated with bulls and...
Middle-Elamite period, circa 1500-1100 BC
Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Unfinished kudurru
Kassite period, attributed to the reign of Melishipak...
Susa (where it had been taken as war booty in...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Ubaid female figurine
Obeid period, c. 4700-4200 BC
Tello (ancient Girsu)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Two Servants Carrying a Bench
Neo-Assyrian period, reign of Sargon II (721-705 BC)
Khorsabad, ancient Dur Sharrukin, façade L,...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Trumpet with a swelling decorated...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Token with a love scene
circa 2400-2200 BC
Southeast Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Three-footed bowl with ibex
Simashki dynasty (2000-1940 BC)
Tomb 1, Apadana mound, Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
The Yehawmilk Stele
Persian period, circa 450 BC
Phoenicia, Byblos, Lebanon
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Near Eastern Antiquities
The temple of Inshushinak cache
Middle Elamite period, c. 1500-1200 BC
Tell of the Acropolis, Susa
