Ancient Orient Museum

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The Ancient Orient Museum is a small private museum in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in artifacts of the ancient Near East and Central Asia. It has a nice collection of Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, and several interesting pieces pertaining to the art of Palmyra and Persia.

The Museum is located in the Sunshine City complex in Ikebukuro, at the 7th floor of the Cultural Center (文化会館), and the entrance fee is 900 yens.

Gandhara stone palette

Fragment of a Gandhara stone palette

Gandhara Poseidon

Gandhara Triton

Aphrodite at her bath.

Indo-Greek festivities.

Indo-Parthian king and attendants.

Ind-Greek drinking party.

Indo-Parthian man hunting.

Indo-Parthian revelers.

Indo-Parthian couple.

Coin of Cleopatra VII.

Coin of Huvishka.

Female figurine, Syria, 5000 BCE.

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