Transcript Looting Iraq Deirdre Sinnott

Looting Iraq:
Past and Present
Museum Director inspects the damage April 12, 2003
Museum worker, April 12, 2003
The British Museum
Clay proto-cuneiform tablet with early pictographic
writing, end of the 4th millennium B.C.
Musée du Louvre
Baked clay foundation cone with
cuneiform writing, end of the 3rd
millennium B.C.
Uruk III (c. 3200-3000 BC)
Various examples of
cuneiform writing from
Iraq Museum collection
of over 7,000 pieces
Uruk III (c. 3200-3000 BC) ?
Examples of the
over 4,000
Cylindrical seals
stolen from Iraq
National Museum
Stone stamp seals, Jamdat Naser period, about 3000 B.C.
Iraq Museum
Card Catalogue, Iraq National Museum
Ambassador
L. Paul Bremer,
U.S. Civil
Administrator In
Iraq
U.S Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
Copper head of Goddess of Victory (stolen)
Ivory plaque from
Nimrud,
beginning of the
1st millennium
B.C. (IM 60555)
Iraq Museum
Sumerian Plate inlaid with shell (stolen)
Stone figurines from Tell es-Sawwan, beginning
of the 6th millennium B.C.
Iraq Museum
Stone Sumerian
statue, about 2400
B.C. (IM 55204)
Iraq Museum
White marble head of Eros-Cherub, from Hatra (stolen)
Sumerian
alabaster
statue from
Ur, about
2400 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Stone statue from
Hatra, 2nd century
A.D. (IM 58084),
Iraq Museum
An Ivory Plaque of a lion killing a Nubian, Assyrian
from Nimrud, 1x10.5cm base, 9.8 high (stolen)
Terra cotta
Sumerian figure
from Tello, about
2000 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Terra cotta
relief: cult scene
from Khafaji,
about 1800 B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Gray Diorite Statue of Entemena, Sumerian
15x76cm, weighs 150 kg (stolen)
Bronze foundation figurine,
end of the 3rd millennium B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Panel carved in
relief : Assyrian
warriors from
Khorsabad, end
of the 8th B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Gray Islamic tombstone (stolen)
Islamic glasses:
cup (IM 11204)
and bottle (IM
11223), 13th and
9-10th centuries
A.D.
Iraq Museum
Small alabaster vessels, Tell es-Sawwan, 6th
millennium B.C. -- Iraq Museum
Gray stone head of female deity, from Hatra (stolen)
Pottery jar
decorated "scarlet
ware" from
Khafaji, beginning
of the 3rd
millennium B.C.,
Iraq Museum
Jewelry board, Royal
Cemetery of Ur, about
2500 B.C.
Iraq Museum
Stone Assyrian relief fragment from Nineveh,
about 700 B.C. (stolen)
Islamic
manuscript page
in Arabic
Iraq Museum
Islamic carved brick architectural decoration (IM
A9874) Iraq Museum/Tabbaa
White marble head of Apollo, from Hatra (stolen)
Islamic wooden panel
Iraq Museum
Islamic coins
Iraq Museum
A sumerian white marble mask of female deity,
life-size, 21.5cm (stolen)
First Floor of Iraq
National Library
Second Floor of Iraq National Library
Debris in back of
Iraq National
Library
Remains of bookshelves from Iraq National Library
Looted archeological site, Ishin Bahryat, Photo by Micah Garen
Italian Police patrol Umma, Iraq. Photo by Micah Garen
Looters running from helicopter at Isin, Jan. 2004
CONVENTION FOR THE
PROTECTION OF CULTURAL
PROPERTY IN THE EVENT OF
ARMED CONFLICT.
Done at the Hague, on 14 May 1954
George W. Bush, President of the United States