Brick
![A brick broken into two parts. On the edge of the brick, there are 4 designs similar to eye motifs with a large dot surrounded by another circle in black pigment. The brick is otherwise unpainted brownish clay.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ishtar-gate/objects/brick-guilloche/@@images/674bffb0-6d07-4f48-b0e7-c28ed8287950.jpeg)
Brick
- Description:
- Brick with guilloche motif
- Medium:
- Glazed baked clay
- Location:
- Kalhu (modern Nimrud), Iraq
- Dimensions:
- H. 10.2 cm; W. 35.6 cm; D. 16.5 cm
- Date:
- Neo-Assyrian Period, ca. 900–800 BCE
- Inventory Number:
- 57.27.24a, b
- Lender:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit:
- Rogers Fund, 1957
Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, CC0 1.0.