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Home>Collection & Louvre Palace>Selected Works>Remarkable Enigmas
Selected Works Remarkable Enigmas
This selection features artworks that hold secrets or are enigmatic for curators. “What was the purpose of that object?”, “Who was it for?” and “What really lies behind this painting?” are just a few of the questions their peculiarities raise. And what do you think?
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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities
Military Diploma
AD 139
Afiq (present-day Fiq), Golan, Syria
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Egyptian Antiquities
Square of fabric illustrating...
Coptic-Arabic Period, 7th-8th century
Antinoe (?), Egypt
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Egyptian Antiquities
Detachable headrest
New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC
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Egyptian Antiquities
Mummy Label
Between the second and third century AD
Akhmim?
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Egyptian Antiquities
Nude Male Statuette
Naqada I period
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Egyptian Antiquities
Cubit rod (rule) of Maya,...
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun...
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Egyptian Antiquities
Foundation deposit from the temple...
18th Dynasty, 1479-1457 BC, reign of Hatshepsut
Luxor, West Thebes, temple of Deir el-Bahri
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Perforated stone with a coiled...
Reign of Puzur-Shushinak, c.2100 BC
Susa, Iran
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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
Eye Idol
Chalcolithic (3300-3000 BC)
Northern Syria
