Brick
![Parts of a broken brick in three pieces are placed together along the faults to create the shape of a rough rectangle. The brick is painted in a faded and chipped black pigment, with white handwritten markings along the top of the brick's painted face. The brick is photographed against a black background.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ishtar-gate/objects/brick-inscribed-1/@@images/7b6fb8d3-6eda-4257-8dfe-e69972fbb4a5.jpeg)
Brick
- Description:
- Brick with fitters' marks and cuneiform inscription on reverse
- Medium:
- Glazed baked clay
- Location:
- Southern Palace, El-Kasr Mound, Babylon, Iraq
- Dimensions:
- H. 7.9 cm; W. 20.7 cm; D. 15.5 cm
- Date:
- Neo-Babylonian Period (probably reign of Nebuchadnezzar II, 604–562 BCE)
- Inventory Number:
- VA 17454
- Lender:
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Vorderasiatisches Museum; Photo: Olaf M. Teßmer