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Returned to Iraq, 2025.
Press release: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Sculptures to the Republic of Iraq
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Title: Head of a male
Period: Old Babylonian
Date: ca. 2000–1600 BCE
Geography: Southern Mesopotamia
Culture: Babylonian
Medium: Ceramic, paint
Dimensions: H. 7 1/16 × W. 5 1/2 in. (18 × 14 cm)
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1972
“Patterns of Collecting: Selected Acquisitions 1965-1975,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 6, 1975–March 23, 1976.
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selections from the Collection of the Ancient Near East Department,” MOA Museum of Art, Atami, Japan, The Aiche Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, 1983.
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