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.](https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ishtar-gate/objects/brick-queen-hand/@@images/2022205a-eb82-40db-b2b8-e7a4720dc5a6.jpeg)
Brick
- Description:
- Fragmentary brick with the hand of a queen
- Medium:
- Molded and glazed siliceous material
- Location:
- Inshushinak Temple, Apadana Mound, Susa, Iran
- Dimensions:
- H. 10.5 cm; W. 11.6 cm; D. 10.4 cm
- Date:
- Middle Elamite Period, Shutrukid Dynasty (reign of Shilhak-Inshushinak, 1150–1120 BCE)
- Inventory Number:
- Sb 726
- 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 right in the photograph is the subject of this page.