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British Museum. Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities (Corporate Name)
Used for/see from:
- Earlier heading: British Museum. Dept. of Western Asiatic Antiquities
See also:
- Earlier heading: British Museum. Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities
- Later heading: British Museum. Department of the Ancient Near East
- British Museum
Est. 1866 as Dept. of Oriental Antiquities; name changed 1886 to Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities; reorganized 1955 into Dept. of Egyptian Antiquities and Dept. of Western Asiatic Antiquities
Its Fifty masterpieces of ancient Near Eastern art, 1960.
Mitchell, T. C. Catalogue of the Western Asiatic seals ... , 2007: galley (Dept. of the Ancient Near East formerly Western Asiatic Antiquities)
A researcher's guide to the Lachish Collection ..., c2006: p. viii (Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities; now the Department of the Ancient Near East)
British Museum WWW site, Jan. 2, 2007 (Department of the Ancient Near East; name chgd. from Western Asiatic Antiquities to Ancient Near East in recent years)