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Looting Iraq:Past and Present
Museum Director inspects the damage April 12, 2003
Museum worker, April 12, 2003
The British Museum
Baked clay foundation cone with cuneiform writing, end of the 3rd
millennium B.C.
Musée du Louvre
Clay proto-cuneiform tablet with early pictographic writing, end of the 4th millennium B.C.
Various examples of cuneiform writing from Iraq Museum collection
of over 7,000 pieces
Uruk III (c. 3200-3000 BC)
Uruk III (c. 3200-3000 BC) ?
Examples of the over 4,000
Cylindrical seals stolen from Iraq
National Museum
Stone stamp seals, Jamdat Naser period, about 3000 B.C.
Iraq Museum
Card Catalogue, Iraq National Museum
Ambassador
L. Paul Bremer, U.S. Civil
Administrator In Iraq
U.S Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
Copper head of Goddess of Victory (stolen)(stolen)
Ivory plaque from Nimrud,
beginning of the 1st millennium
B.C. (IM 60555)
Iraq Museum
Sumerian Plate inlaid with shell (stolen)(stolen)
Stone figurines from Tell es-Sawwan, beginning of the 6th millennium B.C.
Iraq Museum
Stone Sumerian statue, about 2400 B.C. (IM 55204)
Iraq Museum
White marble head of Eros-Cherub, from Hatra (stolen)(stolen)
Sumerian alabaster
statue from Ur, about 2400 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Stone statue from Hatra, 2nd century A.D. (IM 58084),
Iraq Museum
An Ivory Plaque of a lion killing a Nubian, Assyrian from Nimrud, 1x10.5cm base, 9.8 high (stolen)(stolen)
Terra cotta Sumerian figure
from Tello, about 2000 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Terra cotta relief: cult scene
from Khafaji, about 1800 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Gray Diorite Statue of Entemena, Sumerian 15x76cm, weighs 150 kg (stolen)(stolen)
Bronze foundation figurine, end of the 3rd millennium B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Panel carved in relief : Assyrian warriors from
Khorsabad, end of the 8th B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Gray Islamic tombstone (stolen)(stolen)
Islamic glasses: cup (IM 11204) and bottle (IM 11223), 13th and 9-10th centuries
A.D.
Iraq Museum
Small alabaster vessels, Tell es-Sawwan, 6th millennium B.C. -- Iraq Museum
Gray stone head of female deity, from Hatra (stolen)(stolen)
Pottery jar decorated "scarlet
ware" from Khafaji, beginning
of the 3rd millennium B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Jewelry board, Royal Cemetery of Ur, about
2500 B.C.
Iraq Museum
Stone Assyrian relief fragment from Nineveh, about 700 B.C. (stolen)(stolen)
Islamic manuscript page
in Arabic
Iraq Museum
Islamic carved brick architectural decoration (IM A9874) Iraq Museum/Tabbaa
White marble head of Apollo, from Hatra (stolen)(stolen)
Islamic wooden panel
Iraq Museum
Islamic coins
Iraq Museum
A sumerian white marble mask of female deity, life-size, 21.5cm (stolen)(stolen)
First Floor of Iraq National
Library
Second Floor of Iraq National Library
Debris in back of Iraq National
Library
Remains of bookshelves from Iraq National Library
Looted archeological site, Ishin Bahryat, Photo by Micah Garen
Italian Police patrol Umma, Iraq. Photo by Micah Garen
Looters running from helicopter at Isin, Jan. 2004
CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF
ARMED CONFLICT. Done at the Hague, on 14 May 1954
George W. Bush, President of the United States
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