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Ancient Orient Museum


The Ancient Orient Museum (古代オリエント博物館 Kodai Oriento Hakubutsukan?) is a small private museum in Tokyo, Japan, specializing in artifacts of the ancient Near East and Central Asia. It has a collection of Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara, and several 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 yen.

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

Indo-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

Coordinates: 35°43′43″N 139°43′15″E / 35.728534°N 139.720785°E / 35.728534; 139.720785


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