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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
A grimacing mask
Late 7th century-early 6th century BC
Carthage, Tunisia
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Near Eastern Antiquities
A Hurrian foundation deposit known...
Period of the Empire of Ur III, 21st century BC
Probably Tell Mozan, northeast Syria
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Near Eastern Antiquities
A perforated bas-relief decorated...
c. 2700-2650 BC
Mesopotamia
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Near Eastern Antiquities
A prism of the Assyrian king...
Assyrian Empire, reign of Ashurbanipal (668-627 BC)
Nineveh, Assyria (Iraq)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Amarna letter: to the pharaoh from...
Late Bronze Age, circa 14th century BC
Amarna, Egypt
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Anthropoid sarcophagus with lid
circa 470 BC
Lebanon, environs of Tripoli
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Archaic writing tablets
Proto-urban period (late 4th millennium BC)
Iraq (Mesopotamia), Uruk (now Warka) (?)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Axe inscribed with the name of...
Circa 1340-1300 BC
Temple of Kiririsha in Tchoga Zanbil, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bas-relief
2nd to 3rd century AD
Iran, Masjid-e Suleiman, Temple of Heracles,...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Base for a ritual offering, carved...
Elamite period, mid-3rd millennium BC
Tell of the Acropolis, Susa, Iran
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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
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...
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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
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Double cylindrical vase decorated...
Middle of 3rd millennium BC
Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Dynastic list of the kings of Awan...
Sukkalmah dynasty, early 2nd millennium BC
Susa, Iran
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Ebih-Il, the Superintendent of Mari
Period of the Archaic Dynasties, circa 2400 BC
Temple of Ishtar, Mari (Syria)
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Eye Idol
Chalcolithic (3300-3000 BC)
Northern Syria
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Female figurine from the Halaf...
C. 6000-5100 BC
Mesopotamia or northern Syria
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Fertility idol
Chalcolithic period (4th millennium BC)
Region of Alaminos
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Figurine of a god, known as the...
Early 2nd millennium BC
Provenance unknown
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Figurine of a Hittite god
14th-13th century BC
Yozgat
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Figurine of a seated woman
Mid-6th millennium BC
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Foundation charter of the palace...
Reign of Darius I (522-486 BC)
Susa, Iran, palace of Darius I (found under...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Fragment of a victory stele
Akkadian Period, c. 2300 BC
