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Ishtar Gate animals | Middle Neo-Assyrian door | Pre-Islamic Arabic art exhibits | Figurines from Middle bronze age, Old Babylonian, 2004-1595 BC

Pre-Islamic Arabic art exhibits

Upon entering the museum one almost immediately sees the objects I group here. They are from the Arab world, in the period before the Islam. I must confess I am mainly surprised by the simple forms, compared with what was made at the same (rather late) period elsewhere.

All these things are 4th – 1st century BC and stem from the Pre-Islamitic era in the Arab Peninsula.
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