MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, ANTIQUITÉES ORIENTALES

DÉPARTEMENT DES ANTIQUITÉS ORIENTALES

PARIS, FRANCE

2003

The first of Goppion’s projects in the Louvre was for the Département des Antiquités Orientales, with the double aim of improving the lighting and of highlighting the Code of Hammurabi, an important collection of laws from 1750 bc.

The display revolves around one of the milestones of the oldest civilisations to have arisen in the ‘land between the two rivers’: the code of Hammurabi, the bronze lion, the mural paintings of Mari, the statues of Eshunna, positioned in the centre of the room.