wall-nail
- Museum number
- 91195
- Description
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Copper alloy wall-nail (Akkadian 'siqqatu').
- Production date
- 8thC BC (late)
- Dimensions
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Length: 17.78 centimetres
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Width: 3.49 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- These were widely used across the Near East and are found in temples and palaces; they were embedded in walls or rooms and may have been used for wall-hangings.
- Location
- On display (G54/dc6/sA)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1991 28 May-7 Oct, Israel, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 'Urartu, A metal working centre in the first millennium BC'
- Condition
- Fair; sound metal; previously chemically or eletyrolytically stripped of all corrosion and lacquered (assessmenrt 1989)
- Acquisition date
- 1880
- Department
- Middle East
- BM/Big number
- 91195
- Registration number
- 1880,1216.13
