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 color and has flaked off on some edges. The clay used for the nail was coarsely tempered.
Dimensions
14.5 x 8.7 cm (5 11/16 x 3 7/16 in.)
Provenance
Excavated from Yorghan Tepe, Iraq, (1930).
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