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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
Bust of a woman
2nd-3rd century AD
Room F, Temple of Artemis Salhiye (ancient...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bust of Ummayat, daughter of Yarhai
Second half of 2nd century AD
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bust of Yarhai, son of Elahbe
Late 2nd century AD
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Capital of a column from the...
Achaeminid Period, reign of Darius I, c. 510 BC
Tell of the Apadana, Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Carthaginian votive stele. Priest...
2nd century BC
Carthage, Tunisia
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Ceremonial ax head with flared...
Early second millennium BC
Bactria (in modern Afghanistan)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Chalice Decorated with Leopards
Late fifth-early fourth millennium BC; Sialk III period,...
South hill, Tepe Sialk (Iran)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cheek plate in the form of a...
Eighth or seventh century BC
Luristan, Iran (precise origin unknown)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cippus from Malta
2nd century BC
Malte, port de Marsa Scirocco
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Composite female statuette
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Composite statuette of an...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cone of Enmetena, king of Lagash
circa 2400 BC
Telloh (ancient Girsu), Lower Mesopotamia
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cylinder seal carved with an...
circa 2600-1700 BC
Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cylinder Seal of Ibni-Sharrum
Agade period, reign of Sharkali-Sharri (c. 2217-2193 BC)
Mesopotamia
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cylinder seal of the priest-king
Uruk period, circa 3200 BC
Iraq, findspot unknown
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cylinders of Gudea
Circa 2100 BC
Iraq (Mesopotamia), Tello (formerly Girsu)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Cypriot cup known as the...
8th century BC
Dali, Cyprus
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Dagger chape
539-333 BC
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Deportation of the Population...
c. 645 BC
Nineveh, Palace of Ashurbanipal, room V1/T1,...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Dog Pendant
