Looting Iraq Deirdre Sinnott

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Looting Iraq: Past and Present

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Museum Director inspects the damage April 12, 2003

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Museum worker, April 12, 2003

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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.

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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) ?

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Examples of the over 4,000 Cylindrical seals stolen from Iraq National Museum

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Stone stamp seals, Jamdat Naser period, about 3000 B.C. Iraq Museum

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Card Catalogue, Iraq National Museum

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Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, U.S. Civil Administrator In Iraq

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U.S Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

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Copper head of Goddess of Victory (stolen)

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Ivory plaque from Nimrud, beginning of the 1st millennium B.C. (IM 60555) Iraq Museum

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Sumerian Plate inlaid with shell (stolen)

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Stone figurines from Tell es-Sawwan, beginning of the 6th millennium B.C. Iraq Museum

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Stone Sumerian statue, about 2400 B.C. (IM 55204) Iraq Museum

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White marble head of Eros-Cherub, from Hatra (stolen)

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Sumerian alabaster statue from Ur, about 2400 B.C., Iraq Museum

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Stone statue from Hatra, 2nd century A.D. (IM 58084), Iraq Museum

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An Ivory Plaque of a lion killing a Nubian, Assyrian from Nimrud, 1x10.5cm base, 9.8 high (stolen)

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Terra cotta Sumerian figure from Tello, about 2000 B.C., Iraq Museum

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Terra cotta relief: cult scene from Khafaji, about 1800 B.C., Iraq Museum

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Gray Diorite Statue of Entemena, Sumerian 15x76cm, weighs 150 kg (stolen)

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Bronze foundation figurine, end of the 3rd millennium B.C., Iraq Museum

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Panel carved in relief : Assyrian warriors from Khorsabad, end of the 8th B.C., Iraq Museum

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Gray Islamic tombstone (stolen)

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Islamic glasses: cup (IM 11204) and bottle (IM 11223), 13th and 9-10th centuries A.D. Iraq Museum

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Small alabaster vessels, Tell es-Sawwan, 6th millennium B.C. -- Iraq Museum

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Gray stone head of female deity, from Hatra (stolen)

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Pottery jar decorated "scarlet ware" from Khafaji, beginning of the 3rd millennium B.C., Iraq Museum

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Jewelry board, Royal Cemetery of Ur, about 2500 B.C. Iraq Museum

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Stone Assyrian relief fragment from Nineveh, about 700 B.C. (stolen)

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Islamic manuscript page in Arabic Iraq Museum

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Islamic carved brick architectural decoration (IM A9874) Iraq Museum/Tabbaa

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White marble head of Apollo, from Hatra (stolen)

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Islamic wooden panel Iraq Museum

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Islamic coins Iraq Museum

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A sumerian white marble mask of female deity, life-size, 21.5cm (stolen)

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First Floor of Iraq National Library

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Second Floor of Iraq National Library

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Debris in back of Iraq National Library

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Remains of bookshelves from Iraq National Library

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Looted archeological site, Ishin Bahryat, Photo by Micah Garen

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Italian Police patrol Umma, Iraq. Photo by Micah Garen

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Looters running from helicopter at Isin, Jan. 2004

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CONVENTION FOR THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF ARMED CONFLICT. Done at the Hague, on 14 May 1954