View of the Ishtar Gate.Part of the front of Karaindash's temple to Inanna in Uruk.Reconstruction of a mosaic from the Eanna temple.
The Vorderasiatisches Museum (German:[ˈfɔʁdɐ.ʔaˌzi̯atɪʃəsmuˈzeːʊm], Near East Museum) is an archaeological museum in Berlin. It is in the basement of the south wing of the Pergamon Museum and has one of the world's largest collections of Southwest Asian art. 14 halls distributed across 2,000 square meters of exhibition surface display southwest Asian culture spanning six millennia. The exhibits cover a period from the 6th millennium BCE into the time of the Muslim conquests. They originate particularly from today's states of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, with singular finds also from other areas. Starting with the Neolithic finds, the emphasis of the collection is of finds from Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria, as well as northern Syria and eastern Anatolia.
Excavations in historically important cities like Uruk, Shuruppak, Assur, Hattusha, Tell el Amarna, Tell Halaf (Guzana), Sam'al, Toprakkale and Babylon built the foundation of the museum's collection. Further acquisitions came from Nimrud, Nineveh, Susa and Persepolis. The museum shows finds from the cultures of Sumer, Akkad, Babylonia, Assyria, the Hittites and the Aramaeans. These finds often found their way to Berlin via the German Oriental Society. In 1899, the Middle East Department at the royal museums was created. In 1929, they were provisionally accommodated in the Bode Museum and the Pergamon Museum, where they have been accessible to the public since 1930. During the Second World War, there were hardly any war-related losses. The mobile exhibits, which were taken as art spoilage to the Soviet Union, were returned to East Germany in 1958. The collection had already opened again as the Vorderasiatisches Museum in 1953.
Notable pieces of the collection are the Ishtar Gate and Procession Way of Babylon, remainders of the ancient city of Babylon, parts of the Eanna temple and Karaindash's temple to Inanna in Uruk. The museum also has an important number of Southwest Asian stamp and cylinder seals, as well as cuneiform texts. It has more than 200 of the Amarna letters and the larger ("Meissner") fragment (VAT 4105) of the Sippar tablet from the Epic of Gilgamesh, which includes Siduri's advice, unlike later editions of the epic.
At present (2019) Barbara Helwing is the director of the museum, following Markus Hilgert (2014-2018).[1] Previous directors were Beate Salje, Walter Andrae, Gerhard Rudolf Meyer, Liane Jakob-Rost and Evelyn Klengel Brandt, among others.
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The VorderasiatischesMuseum (German: [ˈfɔʁdɐ.ʔaˌzi̯atɪʃəs muˈzeːʊm], Near East Museum) is an archaeological museum in Berlin. It is in the basement of...
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the famous Pergamon Altar, the VorderasiatischesMuseum and the Museum für Islamische Kunst. In October 2023, the museum was completely closed for visitors...
Phoenician text found in Syria. It is currently located in the VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin. The stele is a 16-line text in the Phoenician language and...
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Prehistory and Early History) Pergamon Museum: the Antikensammlung, Museum of Islamic Art, VorderasiatischesMuseum (Museum of the Ancient Near East) and Zentralarchiv...
diameter: 27.7 cm; VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin Samarra period fine ware, with central Ibex motif; circa 6200–5700 BC; VorderasiatischesMuseum Female figurine...
Dynastic III period were collected, which ended up in the BerlinMuseum and the Istanbul Museum. They included administrative, legal, lexical, and literary...
(1987): CTH 547 II, KBo 9 67, KBo 25, KUB 4 72 (VAT 8320 in VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin), for which see also George Sarton, Ancient Science Through...
Puzur-Eshtar of Mari; middle Bronze Age; height: 37 cm (15 in); VorderasiatischesMuseum (Berlin, Germany) Head of a cow goddess (Hathor or Mehet-Weret); 1390-1352...
statues and reliefs burst into dozens of pieces. Although the VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin took care of the remains, months passed before all of the pieces...
colleague Walter Andrae reconstructed them into displays at the VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin. The Koldewey expedition recovered artifacts from the Old Babylonian...
(approx. 130,000 tablets), the VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin, the Louvre, the Istanbul Archaeology Museums, the National Museum of Iraq, the Yale Babylonian...
list of museums with major art collections from the Ancient Near East. British Museum, London, UK. 290,000 objects. VorderasiatischesMuseum, Berlin, Germany...
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27.7 cm; VorderasiatischesMuseum (Berlin) Samarra period fine ware, with central Ibex motif; circa 6200-5700 BCE; VorderasiatischesMuseum Fragment of...
Mediterranean to the Indus. Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2003. p. 481. ISBN 9781588390431. "VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin". repository.edition-topoi.org. Archived...
Sam'al. It is currently occupies a prominent position in the VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin. The inscription was discovered in 1890 in a village north...
Hittite city of Sam'al. In 1921 Andrae became curator of the VorderasiatischesMuseumBerlin, where from 1928 to 1951 he served as its director. Starting...
(Jehoiachin), King of Judah, and the Babylonian captivity. From Babylon, Iraq. Reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, c. 580 BCE. VorderasiatischesMuseum, Berlin...
king. The Babylonian Chronicles are currently housed in the Pergamum Museum in Berlin. Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC) Kingdom of Judah List of biblical figures...
and 1981. The plot is set between 1936 and 1945, and is located in Nazi Berlin, Spain during the civil war, Paris before the World War II and Stockholm...
Female statuette, Samarra, 6000 BC The Samarra bowl at the VorderasiatischesMuseum, Berlin. The swastika in the center of the design is a reconstruction...
at Ashur on the Tigris: Antiquities in the VorderasiatischesMuseum, Berlin. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0-87099-743-2. Hauser, Stefan...
tablets found, second largest collection in the world after the VorderasiatischesMuseum, Berlin (203 tablets) (1350 BC) Stela of Horemheb from his tomb at...
letters. Correspondence between a king of Alashiya and Amenhotep III of Egypt. Circa 1380 BCE. From Tell el-Amarna, Egypt. VorderasiatischesMuseum, Berlin...
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