Foundation Peg with a God Figure
This pin represents a praying guardian deity. It was driven under a wall when building a temple as a talisman for the peace and security of the building.
- Cultural property designation
- Quantity
- Artist
- Period/Century
- Sumerian Early Dynastic period, ca. 2400 BC
- Country/Origin
- Southern Iraq
- Excavation site
- Excavated in southern Iraq
- Material
- Copper alloy
- Size
- Inscriptions
- Donor
- Collection reference no.
- TJ-5597
- Genre
- Asian Archaeology
- Category
- Archaeology > Media > Metal
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