Inscribed Brick

Photograph with two roughly cube-shaped pieces of fragmentary bricks. One piece has cuneiform inscriptions with straight lines between the rows of symbols and the other shows the top of a closed hand in relief. Both bricks are a brownish color.

Inscribed Brick

Description:: Fragmentary brick with a cuneiform inscription

Medium:: Molded and glazed siliceous material

Location:: Inshushinak Temple, Apadana Mound, Susa, Iran

Dimensions:: H. 10.1 cm; W. 13.5 cm; D. 10.5 cm

Date:: Middle Elamite Period, Shutrukid Dynasty (reign of Shilhak-Inshushinak, 1150–1120 BCE)

Inventory Number:: Sb 11481

Lender:: Musée du Louvre, Paris, Département des Antiquités orientales

© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Raphael Chipault / Art Resource, NY

The brick fragment at left in the photograph is the subject of this page.