It features an image of the Greek goddess Europa, which comes from a vase in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
French police have detained a woman accused of defacing an iconic Delacroix painting, Liberty Leading The People, at a branch of the Louvre Museum.
The show includes 50 other items loaned from, among others, the Louvre Museum of Paris, the Metropolitan Museum of New York and the British Museum of London.
Last month Egyptian archaeologists travelled to the Louvre Museum in Paris to collect five ancient fresco fragments stolen from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in the 1980s.
The Louvre Lens museum only opened in the former mining town in December.
Organized to mark the 100th anniversary of the first excavations at Uruk, the show is a sweeping presentation of archaeological objects (including loans from the British Museum and the Louvre), architectural reconstructions and digital renderings that provide the most complete overview of the metropolis ever assembled.
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He participated in the restauration works of the Museum of Louvre and his works were exhibited in several famous art galleries, including Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway (1972), the French Institute of Athens, Greece (1983), the gallery Terra Nova, Switzerland (1997).
The High doubled in size several years ago, and launched partnerships with major institutions such as the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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The Louvre claims to be the most visited art museum in the world with almost 10 million visitors in 2012.
Loyrette will be a tough act to follow after being credited with doubling annual visitor numbers to 10 million during his tenure - making the Louvre the world's most visited art museum last year.
The Louvre gets its particular character because it evolved into a museum rather than being designed as one.
The works, which include sculptures and bracelets, frescoes and funerary urns, hail from collections as esteemed as the Louvre in Paris, Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, and British Museum in London.
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