9 February 2010
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Endangered Iraqi objects
Any object bearing the trace of a removed inventory number is necessarily suspect. We would like to thank the Louvre museum and the Rhône archaeological team for the use of their photographs.
Cuneiform writing is typical of Mesopotamian civilisation from the end of the
4th millennium until approximately our era.
These items bear a motif engraved in the hollow and often an inscription in cuneiform writing. They can be made of white marble, hematite, limestone, lapis-lazuli, etc.
seals and their development
chalcedony seal and its impression
These bear an inscription in cuneiform writing
bronze foundation figurines Average height: 15 cm
These objects may be made of stone, terracotta or bronze
Vase/globular jar  
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Inventory
numbers beginning with IM signify that these objects have been taken from the
museum in Bagdad. 
