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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
Bead necklace
Achaemenid period, c. 350 BC
Acropolis, Susa
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Blessing genius
Neo-Assyrian period, circa 721-705 BC (reign of Sargon II)
Third gate of the palace of Sargon II,...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Board game, the so-called...
Iron Age, c. 11th-9th centuries BC
Necropolis B, Tomb 217, Tepe Sialk, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bottle decorated with figures of...
Sassanid era, c. 5th-6th century AD
Reshy, Dailaman province, Iran?
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Near Eastern Antiquities
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Bowl with human figure
Circa 4200-3800 BC
Necropolis, acropolis mound, Susa
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Box in the shape of a duck
Thirteenth century BC
Minet el Beida, port of Ugarit (modern Ras...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bracelet decorated with incrusted...
Achaemenid period, c. 350 BC
Acropolis, Susa
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bull-shaped cosmetic flask
Late 3rd-early 2nd millennium BC
Bactria (?)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bushel with ibex motifs
Susa I period, circa 4200-3500 BC
Necropolis, acropolis mound, Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bust of a praying figure statue...
