brick
- Museum number
- 1979,1218.77
- Description
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Glazed brick; fired clay; chaff-tempered; flat face decorated with glazed rosette pattern of which the tips of two petals survive, coloured white; dark blue glazed background; solidified dribble of blue glaze on the top; patch of bitumen on the bottom; fragment.
- Dimensions
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Height: 8 centimetres (complete)
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Length: 9 centimetres
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Thickness: 6 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Probably from Babylon where rosettes were employed as motifs on the Throne Room façade in the Southern palace of Nebuchadnezzar II and along the Processional Way (e.g. J. Marzahn, 1994, The Ishtar Gate: The Processional Way/The New Year Festival of Babylon, Mainz: von Zabern for Der Vorderasiatisches Museum, pp. 10-13); similar petals were used to represent the tips of lotus flowers on the same Throne Room façade (cf. Marzahn op. cit., p. 33, fig. 16).
- Location
- On display (G1/wp70/sh3)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
Enlightenment gallery, from Nov 2003
- Condition
- Fragment.
- Acquisition date
- 1884 (prior to)
- Department
- Middle East
- Registration number
- 1979,1218.77