Nippur / stamped brick / Ceramic
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 1963.06.0111
- Object Name
- stamped brick
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Brick stamps
- Materials
- Ceramic
- Weight
- too heavy to weigh
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- yes
- Full Artifact Description
- Root: Mudbrick of King Ur-Nammu. Used as part of a box for votive offerings in the foundations of the Temple of Inanna at Nippur--the holy city of Mesopotamia.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Verbatim Date
- 2150-2000 BC
- Verbatim Provenance
- Iraq
- Verbatim Site
- Nippur
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Pedestal 02 - Meaning in Mudbrick
- Exhibition Curator
- Root, Margaret Cool
- Exhibition Year
- 2009
- Publication Title
- Passionate Curiosities: Tales of Collectors & Collections from the Kelsey Museum
- Old Babylonian Period
- Publication Author
- Talalay, Lauren E.; Cool, Margaret Root
- Frayne, Douglas
- Publication Year
- 2015
- 1990
- Type Category
- Inscription
Technical Details
- Record
- 1963.06.0111
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1963.06.0111/1963_06_0111
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"Nippur; stamped brick; Ceramic." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-1963.06.0111/1963_06_0111. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.