B.R.I.L.A. - Bureau for Recovering and Investigating Iraqi Looted Antiquities

BRILA 2003 - List of recovered objects

The second inventory was prepared in Baghdad in only five days (December 2003) on the museum’s premises in conditions that, as one may imagine, were quite precarious. Therefore, as it was necessary to decide how to document all of the recovered objects as quickly as possible (mostly cylinder seals and beads), it was decided to compile a simple list of the recovered pieces, with the IM number still visible. Photographs, on the other hand, were taken only of those pieces that no longer possessed (and perhaps never possessed) the museum’s inventory number.