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Nails for the Decoration of Walls
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Excavated from Yorghan Tepe Iraq (1930).
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Harvard-Baghdad School Expedition (1929-1930)
Title: Nails for the Decoration of Walls
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.
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