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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
Stele of Untash-Napirisha, king of...
C. 1340-1300 BC
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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
Composite statuette of an...
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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
Statuette of a Praying Figure
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Panels of molded bricks
Mid 12th century BC
Apadana mound, Susa
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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
Sit Shamshi
12th century BC
Tell of the Acropolis, Susa
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Near Eastern Antiquities
The temple of Inshushinak cache
Middle Elamite period, c. 1500-1200 BC
Tell of the Acropolis, Susa
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Double cylindrical vase decorated...
Middle of 3rd millennium BC
Susa, Iran
