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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Façade of the Mshatta
Palace (AD 744) Practical Information
This fragment is from the Bodestraße 1–3.
southern façade of the Map 4 C1, 5 D1.
Jordanian Mshatta Palace, Tel (030) 266 42 42 42.
presented to Wilhelm II by Open 10am–6pm daily (to 8pm
Sultan Abdul Hamid of Thu). & 9 = d m 7 -
Ottoman in 1903. ∑ smb.museum
Transport
 Friedrichstraße or Hackescher
Markt. @ 100, 200, TXL.

Aleppo Zimmer (around 1603)
This magnificent panelled room comes
from a merchant’s house in the Syrian
city of Aleppo.

. Market Gate from
Miletus (c.120 AD)
Measuring over 16 m
(52 ft) in height, this
gate opened onto the
southern market of
Miletus, a Roman town
in Asia Minor.

Key
Ancient Near Eastern antiquities
(Vorderasiatisches Museum)
Islamic art (Museum für
Islamische Kunst)
Classical antiquities
Non-exhibition rooms

Main
entrance . Ishtar Gate
from Babylon
Gallery Guide (6th century BC)
Original glazed
The right wing houses the Museum bricks decorate both
of Near Eastern Antiquities; the first the huge Ishtar gate
floor of the right wing houses the and the impressive
Museum of Islamic Art. The left wing Processional Way
will be closed until 2019. that leads up to it.

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