Department of the Middle East of the British Museum

E547861

curatorial division museum department

The Department of the Middle East of the British Museum is the curatorial division responsible for one of the world’s foremost collections of ancient Near Eastern artifacts, including major Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persian works.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
British Museum Department of the Middle East	2
Department of the Middle East of the British Museum canonical	1
Department of the Middle East, British Museum	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	curatorial division ⓘ museum department ⓘ
collectionType	Assyrian artifacts ⓘ Babylonian artifacts ⓘ Mesopotamian artifacts ⓘ Persian artifacts ⓘ ancient Near Eastern artifacts ⓘ architectural fragments ⓘ ceramics ⓘ coins ⓘ cuneiform tablets ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ metalwork ⓘ reliefs ⓘ sculpture ⓘ seals ⓘ
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Assyriology ⓘ Near Eastern archaeology ⓘ ancient history of the Near East ⓘ epigraphy ⓘ
hasCollection	Assyrian royal palace reliefs ⓘ Babylonian cuneiform tablets ⓘ Persian Achaemenid objects ⓘ objects from Babylon ⓘ objects from Nimrud ⓘ objects from Nineveh ⓘ objects from Persepolis ⓘ objects from Ur ⓘ
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity	City of Westminster NERFINISHED ⓘ England NERFINISHED ⓘ
location	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
parentOrganization	Trustees of the British Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	British Museum NERFINISHED ⓘ
regionCovered	Anatolia NERFINISHED ⓘ Ancient Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ Arabian Peninsula NERFINISHED ⓘ Iran NERFINISHED ⓘ Levant NERFINISHED ⓘ Mesopotamia NERFINISHED ⓘ
responsibleFor	acquisition of Near Eastern artifacts ⓘ conservation of Near Eastern collections ⓘ display of Near Eastern collections ⓘ research on the ancient Near East ⓘ
timePeriodCovered	Achaemenid period ⓘ Bronze Age ⓘ Iron Age ⓘ Parthian period NERFINISHED ⓘ Prehistory of the Near East NERFINISHED ⓘ Sasanian period NERFINISHED ⓘ early Islamic period ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Assyrian lion hunt reliefs → museumDepartment → Department of the Middle East of the British Museum ⓘ

Standard of Ur → collection → Department of the Middle East of the British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum Department of the Middle East

Oxus Treasure → museumDepartment → Department of the Middle East of the British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: Department of the Middle East, British Museum

Lachish reliefs → collection → Department of the Middle East of the British Museum ⓘ

this entity surface form: British Museum Department of the Middle East