Department of Near Eastern Antiquities
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The Department of Near Eastern Antiquities is a major curatorial division of the Louvre that houses and studies archaeological artifacts from ancient Mesopotamia, Persia, the Levant, and surrounding regions.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Near Eastern antiquities collection | 1 |
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
curatorial division
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museum department ⓘ |
| collectionType |
ancient Near Eastern art
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antiquities ⓘ archaeological artifacts ⓘ |
| country | France ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
Achaemenid Empire
ⓘ
Akkadians ⓘ
surface form:
Akkadian civilization
Anatolia ⓘ Arabian Peninsula ⓘ Arameans ⓘ
surface form:
Aramaean kingdoms
Assyria ⓘ
surface form:
Assyrian civilization
Babylonian civilization ⓘ Cyprus ⓘ Elamite ⓘ
surface form:
Elamite civilization
Hittite Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Hittite civilization
Parthian Empire ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ Sasanian Empire ⓘ Sumer ⓘ
surface form:
Sumerian civilization
Mesopotamia ⓘ
surface form:
ancient Mesopotamia
ancient Near East ⓘ ancient Persia ⓘ Levant region ⓘ
surface form:
the Levant
|
| hasCollection |
Achaemenid stone reliefs
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Arabian incense burners ⓘ Assyrian palace reliefs from Khorsabad ⓘ Code of Hammurabi ⓘ
surface form:
Code of Hammurabi stele
Cypriot terracottas ⓘ Elamite statues ⓘ Hittite orthostats ⓘ Lamassu sculptures ⓘ Mesopotamian cylinder seals ⓘ Phoenician ivories ⓘ Sasanian silverware ⓘ cuneiform tablets ⓘ |
| languageOfWork |
English
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French ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
France
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Louvre Palace ⓘ Paris ⓘ |
| museumFunction |
conservation of artifacts
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public display ⓘ publication of scholarly work ⓘ research ⓘ |
| parentOrganization | Louvre Museum ⓘ |
| partOf | Louvre Museum ⓘ |
| timePeriodCovered |
1st millennium BCE
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4th millennium BCE ⓘ Late Antiquity ⓘ |
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Near Eastern antiquities collection