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Nails for the Decoration of Walls
Unidentified Artist1500 BCE - 1350 BCE
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge, United States
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.
Details
- Title: Nails for the Decoration of Walls
- Creator: Unidentified Artist
- Creator Lifespan: 1/1
- Date: 1500 BCE - 1350 BCE
- Technique: Wheel-made
- Physical Dimensions: w0.0 x h14.5 x d0.0 cm
- Period: Mitannian period
- Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard-Baghdad School Expedition (1929-1930)
- Creation Place: Nuzi (Mesopotamia)/Asia/Ancient & Byzantine World
- Type: Architectural Elements
- External Link: Harvard Art Museums
- Medium: Glazed terracotta
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