Werner Forman Archive

ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST

 

Art, artefacts and architecture illustrating the history and culture of the Middle East in ancient times.

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Fertility goddess.

Anatolia, Turkey, 6000 BC. Formerly Schimmel Collection, New York.

Jewellery from the royal burial of Queen Pu-Abi.

Ur, Sumeria, 2500 BC. British Museum, London.

Detail from the "Standard of Ur".

Ur, Sumeria, 2500 BC. British Museum, London.

The Ishtar Gates.

Babylon, 570 BC.

Gold armlet.

Oxus treasure, 550-530 BC. British Museum, London.

Relief carving form Persepolis.

Ancient Persia, c.475 BC.

 

King Ashurbanipal hunting.

Nineveh, c. 645 BC.

British Museum, London.

Ivory plaque representing Ishtar.

Nimrud, c. 725 BC. Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

 

Glazed brick from the Ishtar Gates, representing the dragon Murussu.

Babylon, c. 570 BC. State Museum, Berlin.