Nails for the Decoration of Walls
1500-1350 BCE
Description
This wall nail of buff terracotta consists of a square, tapered shaft and a wheel-made and glazed double-headed knob. The unglazed shaft would have been driven into a mudbrick wall, leaving the elaborate glazed knob exposed. The glaze has faded to a light greenish yellowish color. A section has broken off the upper part of the head, and the lower part is chipped, revealing that the clay used for the nail was coarsely tempered.
Dimensions
16.5 x 8.5 cm (6 1/2 x 3 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Excavated from Yorghan Tepe, Iraq, (1930).
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