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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 Hurrian foundation deposit known...
Fin du IIIe millénaire avant J.-C.
Bassin du Habur
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Near Eastern Antiquities
A perforated bas-relief decorated...
Vers 2700 - 2650 avant J.-C.
Mésopotamie
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Near Eastern Antiquities
The statue of Ebih-Il, nu-banda
Epoque des dynasties archaïques, vers 2400 av. J.-C.
Mari, temple d'Ishtar
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Two Servants Carrying a Bench
Façade L
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Genius holding a poppy flower
Isolated building
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Rein ring decorated with a bull...
Dynasties archaïques II, vers 2650 - 2600 avant J.-C.
Mésopotamie
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Frieze of a mosaic panel
Vers 2500 - 2400 avant J.-C.
Mari, temple d'Ishtar
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Stele representing the goddess...
8th century BC
Til Barsip, renamed Kar Salmanasar in the...
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Obelisk
Époque d'Akkad, vers 2270 avant J.-C.
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Near Eastern Antiquities
Perforated plaque of Dudu
C. 2400 BC
Tello (ancient Girsu)