National Museum of Oriental Art

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National Museum of Oriental Art in Rome.

The National Museum of Oriental Art (Italian: Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale) is a small museum in Rome, Italy, dedicated to the arts of the Orient, from the Middle East to Japan.

In particular, the museum has a rather remarkable collection of artifacts from the Gandhara area. This is due the archaeological missions of the Italian IsMEO to the area of Swat, which focused on the Butkara Stupa and the city of Barikot.

The museum is located 248, via Merulana, and displays artifacts in about 12 rooms. Unfortunately, photographs of the artifacts are not allowed.

[edit] References

• Il Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale a Palazzo Brancaccio, Livorno, Sillabe, 1997
• C. Delvecchio, «Civiltà lontane al Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale», Lazio ieri e oggi, a. XLII, 4, 2006, pp. 124-127

Indo-Corinthian capital representing a Buddhist devotee wearing a Greek cloak with fibula. Butkara Stupa, National Museum of Oriental Art, Rome.

Man in Greek dress, inside a Buddhist arcade, schist, Swat.

Relief showing a male Buddhist devotee in chiton and himation (top), and Hellenistic soldiers wearing the chlamys. Butkara, National Museum of Oriental Art.

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