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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
