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    The Museum of the Ancient Orient (Turkish language: Eski Şark Eserleri Müzesi) is a museum in Istanbul, and part of the Istanbul Archaeology Museums complex...
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    The Ancient Orient Museum (古代オリエント博物館, Kodai Oriento Hakubutsukan) is a small private museum in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in artifacts of the ancient...
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    three museums: Archaeological Museum, located in the main building Museum of the Ancient Orient Museum of Islamic Art, housed in the Tiled Kiosk The origins...
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    Sam'al lions (category Sculptures in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
    Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin (Pergamon Museum), the Museum of the Ancient Orient (Istanbul) and the Louvre. The lions are made from dolerite. They are...
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    ancient Sumerian cuneiform tablet. Some have labelled it the world's oldest love poem. It is on display at the Istanbul Museum of the Ancient Orient (Mesopotamia...
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    uncovered among the Hittite royal palace's sizable archives. Two of the Hittite tablets are displayed at the Museum of the Ancient Orient, part of the Istanbul...
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    Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul. Head of a lamassu from the palace of Esarhaddon, from Nimrud, Iraq, seventh century BC, the British Museum Lamassu...
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    extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans. Semitic inscriptions may occur on...
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  • Hans Henning (June 1931). "The Ancient Seals from the Near East in the Metropolitan Museum: Old and Middle Persian Seals". The Art Bulletin. 13 (2): 221–41...
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    in the Nippur collection of the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul, catalogue number 2707. Another tablet used as cuneiform source for the myth...
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    Okayama Orient Museum (岡山市立オリエント美術館, Okayama Shiritsu Oriento Bijutsukan) is a museum of Ancient Near Eastern, Roman provincial, Byzantine, Sassanian,...
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    collection of the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul (Ni). Samuel Noah Kramer amongst others worked to translate several others from the Istanbul collection...
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    The Museum of the Orient (Portuguese: Museu do Oriente) in Lisbon, Portugal is a museum of Asian art. The museum opened in May, 2008, and is located in...
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    Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (category The Four Lads songs)
    written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople...
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  • Adab (city) (category Populated places disestablished in the 3rd millennium BC)
    Museum of the Ancient Orient, Turkey Headless votive statue, from Adab, Iraq, early dynastic period. Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul Head of a...
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    State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich. Column base in the shape of a double sphinx. From Sam'al. 8th century BC. Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul...
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    in the Nippur collection of the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul, catalogue numbers 1117, 2337, 2473, 2742. Other tablets were added from the "Ur...
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  • Museum of the Ancient Orient (see Istanbul Archaeology Museums (İstanbul Arkeoloji Müzeleri)) Museum of Classical Ottoman (Divan) Literature Museum of...
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    Sublime Porte (redirect from The Porte)
    collectively to the central government of the Ottoman Empire in Istanbul. The name has its origins in the old practice in which the ruler announced his...
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    He also included translations from tablets in the Nippur collection of the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul, catalogue numbers 2705, 3167 and...
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    poetry. The oldest known love poem. Sumerian terracotta tablet#2461 from Nippur, Iraq. Ur III period, 2037–2029 BCE. Ancient Orient Museum, Istanbul The philosopher...
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    Dolmabahçe Palace (category Museums in Istanbul)
    housed the Naval Museum, but the museum was moved to another location in 1960 after the coup d'état of May, 27th. In 1967, the mosque was returned for worship...
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    The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a museum in a 19th-century house in Istanbul (Çukurcuma) created by novelist Orhan Pamuk as a companion...
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    Yıldız Palace (category Historic house museums in Turkey)
    the public and is no longer a museum. Since 2015, it is used by the President of Turkey during his visits to Istanbul, along with his offices at the Dolmabahçe...
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    The chronology of the ancient Near East is a framework of dates for various events, rulers and dynasties. Historical inscriptions and texts customarily...
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    Seraglio, is a large museum and library in the east of the Fatih district of Istanbul in Turkey. From the 1460s to the completion of Dolmabahçe Palace in...
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  • been the name of a Thracian settlement situated on the site of the later city, near the point of the peninsula (Sarayburnu). Byzantion (Ancient Greek:...
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    Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq Erbil Civilization Museum, Iraq Basra Museum, Iraq Museum of the Ancient Orient, Istanbul Archaeology Museums, Turkey Kurkh...
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    Other translations were made from tablets in the Nippur collection of the Museum of the Ancient Orient in Istanbul (Ni). Chiera translated number Ni...
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    Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (category Academic staff of Istanbul University)
    at Museum of the Ancient Orient, one of three such institutions comprising Istanbul Archaeology Museums, as a resident specialist in the field of cuneiform...
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