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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
King Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BC)...
C. 865 BC
Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud
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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
Statue of the Goddess Narundi
Reign of Puzur-Inshushinak, c. 2100 BC
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Bust of a praying figure statue...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Hammer decorated with heads of two...
3rd Ur Dynasty, reign of Shulgi (2094-2047 BC)
Iran, Royal City of Susa, acropolis mound
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Stele of the priest Si Gabbor
7th century BC
Neirab, near Aleppo, Levant
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Funerary stele
C. 7th century BC
Neirab or Tell Afis
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Stele with warrior god
Late Bronze Age or Iron Age? (c. 1200 or 800 BC)
Redjom el-A'abed (Diban region)
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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
Axe inscribed with the name of...
Circa 1340-1300 BC
Temple of Kiririsha in Tchoga Zanbil, Iran
