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Below
we list some useful bibliographical information about Iraqi
museums and collections.
Web sites of European and North American Museums with Ancient
Near-Eastern collections are also listed, in order to give
an overview of the typology of objects.
This
list is not ment to be all-inclusive. Please help us keep
this up to date. If you know of any change or any necessary
addition, let us know, and we shall be happy to make the
necessary changes on this page.
Web
sites with collections from Iraqi Museums
Cuneiform
Digital Library Initiative - A joint project
of the University of California at Los Angeles and the Max
Planck Institute for the History of Science (a database
including ca. 7300 tablets from the Iraq Museum collection)
Lost
Treasures from Iraq (University of Chicago)
Iraq-Museum
Baghdad (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
Iraq
Cultural Property Image Collection - (U.S.
Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs)
The
Art Newspaper.com (The Looting of Iraq Museum)
The
Baghdad Museum Project
Bibliographical
information
Gibson,
McGuire; McMahon, Augusta. Lost Heritage: Antiquities
Stolen from Iraq's Regional Museums, Fascicle 1. Chicago:
American Association for Research in Baghdad; 1992. 1 volume
(xii + 54 pages [illustrated]): American Associaton for
Research in Baghdad, 1155 E. 58th St., Chicago IL 60637,
USA.
Available at http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/lh.html
Baker,
H. D.; Matthews, R. J.; Postgate, J. N. Lost Heritage:
Antiquities Stolen from Iraq's Regional Museums. Fascicle
2. London: British School of Archaeology in Iraq; 1993.
1 volume (viii + 153 pages [illustrated]). ISBN: 0-903472-14-7.
Available at http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/lh.html
Fujii,
Hideo; Oguchi, Kazumi. Lost Heritage: Antiquities Stolen
from Iraq's Regional Museums. Fascicle 3. Tokyo: Institute
for Cultural Studies of Ancient Iraq, Kokushikan University;
1996. 1 volume (xxi + 43 pages [illustrated]).
Available at http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/lh.html
"List
of Stolen Manuscripts" = pages 16-43 of: Fujii, Hideo; Oguchi,
Kazumi. Lost Heritage: Antiquities Stolen from Iraq's
Regional Museums. Fascicle 3. Tokyo: Institute for Cultural
Studies of Ancient Iraq, Kokushikan University; 1996. 1
volume (xxi + 43 pages [illustrated]).
Available at http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/lh.html
Trésors du musée de Bagdad : 7000 ans d'histoire mésopotamienne
: exposition au musée d'art et d'histoire à Genève, 10 décembre
1977-12 février 1978. - Mayence : Ph. von Zabern, cop.
1977. - 60- p. : ill. en noir et en coul., couv. ill. en
coul. ; 23 cm. - ISBN 3-8053-0328-9
Trésors du Musée de Bagdad au Musée du Louvre / André
Parrot. - Paris : , 1966. - 8 p. : 13 gravures ; 27 cm
Treasures
of The Iraq Museum / Faraj Basmachi, Ph.D, Al-Huria
Printing House, Al-Jumhuriya Press, Baghdad - Iraq, 1975-1976,
p. 426
Tesouros
do Museu de Bagdade : desde os tempos primitivos à época
muçulmana : Exposiçao apresentada no Museu nacional de arte
antiga, Lisboa junho julho 1965 : ; préf. Heinrich J.
Lenzen / auteur de l'introduction, etc Heinz Lenzen. - Lisboa
: Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, 1965. - Non paginé : ill.
en noir et en coul., front. en coul., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Capolavori del Museo di Baghdad. (6 millenni di Arte
Mesopotamica) (Cat. Mostra Torino Maggio 1965). Torino,
Museo Civico di Torino - Centro Scavi. di Torino per il
Medio oriente e asia, 1965.
A
Guide to the Iraq Museum Collections : préface Yusuf
Ghanima / The Iraq Museum. Bagdad ; préf. Yusuf Ghanima.
- Baghdad : , 1942. - VI-141 p., XXX pl. : 122 fig., 1 carte,
1 frontispice ; 24 cm
Directorate-General
of Antiquities, Baghdad, Iraq : A Guide to the Arab Museum
at Khan Marjan in Baghdad / Arab Museum. Bagdad. - Second
edition. - Baghdad : , 1957. - 38 p., 28 pl. ; 22 cm
Gräber
assyrischer Königinnen aus Nimrud / Dr. Muayad Saeed Basim
Damerji, in the Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums,
Mainz, Vol. 45 (1998), including 68 Plates, ISSN 0076-2741
Guide
du Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaires / Costume and
ethnographic museum, Bagdad. - Bagdad : Direction des
Antiquités, 1972. - 32 p. dont 14 pl. : 2 plans ; 20 x 22
cm
Guide to the publications of the state organization of
antiquities & and heritage : by Dr. K.R. Salih / K.R.
Salih, Irak. State Organization of Antiquities and Heritage.
- Bagdad : Ministry of culture & information, State organization
of Antiquities & heritage, ca 1983. - Pag. arabe ; 24 cm
Guide-Book to the Iraq Museum : foreword by Dr. Faisal
El-Wailly / Iraq Museum. Baghdad ; préf. Faisal El-Wailly.
- Second Editions : 1973. - Baghdad : Ministry of Information
Directorate General of Antiquites, 1973. - 134 p. : front.,
ill. ; 24 cm
Handbook of the archaeological sites in Iraq / Kahtan
R. Salih. - Bagdad : Ministry of culture & information,
1987. - 224 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Mezopotamia : valogatas az Irak Muzeum gyüjtemenyéböl
: , 1968, Junius, Budapest : / Horvath Tibor. - Budapest
: Szepmuvezeti Museum, 1968. - 64 p. - <27> p. de pl. :
ill., couv. ill. ; 24 cm
The Akkadian Seals in Iraq Museum : by Subhi Anwar
Rashid, Hayat Abid Ali Al-Huri / Hayat Abid Ali Al-Huri,
Subhi Anwar Rashid, Iraq Museum. Baghdad. - Bagdad : Ministry
of culture and information, s. d. - 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Nimrud.
A City of Golden Treasures / M.M. Hussein - A. Suleiman,
Al-Huriya Printing House, on behalf of the Ministry of Culture
and Information, Directorate General of Antiquities, Art
Heritage, Baghdad 1999-2000, 4°, 133 + 443 pp., 223 full
colour plates
Nuzi.
Report on the excavations at Yorgan Tepa Near Kirkuk, Iraq
conducted by Harvard University in conjunction with the
American Schools of Oriental Research and the University
Museum of Philadelphia, 1927-1931 : by Richard F. S.
Starr / Richard F. S. Starr. - Cambridge (Massachusetts)
: Harvard University Press, 1937. - 32 cm
Schätze
aus dem Irak, von der Frühzeit bis zum Islam - Eine
Ausstellung im Wallrauf-Richartz-Museum zu KÖLN, 27. Juni
bis 20. September 1964, (Köln, 1964), 115 pp. (allem.) +
80 pp. (arabe), & 88 Pls. (Photos Noir & Blanc) + VI Pls.
(Couleurs) & 1 Carte (p. 57) : * " KATALOG " = 261 N° (objets
d'art & tablettes cunéiformes).
Sumer
- Assur - Babylone. - Chefs d'oeuvre du Musée de BAGDAD.
- Exposition (au) Musée du Petit Palais de la Ville de PARIS,
24 Mars - 14 Juin 1981, (Paris, 1981), 217 pp. : (Photos
couleurs & N/B) : - " Catalogue " = 231 N° (objets d'art,
avec cylindres-sceaux, etc.).
Many
of these books are available at:
Direction des Musées de France Service des biliothèques,
des archives et de la documentation générale
6, rue des Pyramides 75001 Paris
Tél : +33 (0)1 40 20 58 95 Fax +33 (0)1 40 20 51 69
Email:nicole.picot@culture.gouv.fr
European
and North American Museums with collections from Iraq
Ashmolean
Museum of Art and Archaeology (Oxford, UK)
Assirian
Collection, Oriental Institute, University
of Chicago (USA)
The
Babylonian Collection, Sterling Memorial
Library, Yale University (USA)
Les
collections du Proche-Orient et de l'Iran,
Musées royaux d'art et d'histoire (Bruxelles, Belgium)
Mesopotamia,
The British Museum, (London, UK)
Mesopotamia,
The Detroit Institute of Arts (USA)
Mesopotamian
Collection, Oriental Institute, University
of Chicago (USA)
Museum
of Ancient Near Eastern Antiquities in the Pergamon Museum
(Berlin - Mitte, Germany)
Oriental
Antiquities, Mesopotamia and Anatolia, Louvre
Museum, Paris (France)
Permanent
Collection: Ancient Near Eastern Art, Michael
C. Carlos Museum of Emory University (Atlanta, USA)
The
Cultural Heritage of Iraq, University of
Pennsylvania Museum, (USA)
Treasures
from the Royal Tombs of Ur, Special Exhibition,
February 6 - May 9, 1999; McClung Museum, Knoxville, (USA)
Die
Uruk-Warka Sammlung, University of Heidelberg,
(Germany)
Other
useful Information
List
of Inventoried Museums in Iraq
AAM
(American Association of Museums)
Abzu
(A guide to information related to the study of Ancient
Near East on the Web)
Akkadica
- The e-zine of the Assyriological Foundation Georges Dossin
& the Near Eastern section of the Royal Museums of Art And
History, Brussels (World Wide Directory of Museums with
Near Easter Collections)
British
School of Archaeology in Iraq (Information
about archaeological sites under threat in Iraq)
H-Museum
ICOM
Press Releases
UNESCO
and Iraq
Iraq
- Heritage in Danger (UNESCO)
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