File:Mosaic column, Tell al-'Ubaid.jpg
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editMosaic column
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Mosaic column |
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| Description |
From the temple of the goddess Ninhursag. Two such columns stood on either side of the entrance to the Ninhursag temple. Originally had a core of palm-wood, coated with a layer of bitumen. The mosaic pieces were made of mother-of-peral, pink limestone and black shale, they have copper wires at the back, twisted in loops in the bitumen to hold the pieces in position. |
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| Date | about 2500 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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ME 115328+1166760 |
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| Source/Photographer | Own work, Photo by Szilas in the British Museum, 2010-08-03 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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