terça-feira, agosto 26, 2003
The looting of the Iraq National Museum
"The 300 illustrations here are from the only detailed catalogue of the museum, Treasures of the Iraq Museum by Dr Faraj Basmachi, published in Baghdad in 1975/6."
Pre-History
4. Alabaster figurines of the mother-goddess fro Tell Es-Sawwan, belonging to the 6th millennium BC
Sumerian
82. (believed stolen ) Musical instrument of eleven strings, inlaid with shells, precious stones and gold, found at Ur, perhaps from the time of Princess Shu-bad (about 2450 BC)
Akkadian
119. Terracotta lioness, traces of paint visible, from Aqar Quf (Dur-Kurigalzu), datable to the mid-2nd millennium BC
Assyrian
139. Large Assyrian relief showing a war scene in which the king is seen in his chariot watching the battle and the piling up of the heads of his slain enemies, from Khorsabad
Hatrene
211. Sarcophagus in glazed ware with a lid in two pieces decorated in relief with human figures and vines, dating to the Parthian period, about 1st century AD, found at Kakzu (Tell Sa’dawa)
Islamic
258. The spiral minaret of Samarra, 9th century AD
posted by Luís Miguel Dias terça-feira, agosto 26, 2003
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