Red, black and white painted terracotta cones mosaic (and detail), Uruk, end of the 4th millennium BC, 8-10 x Ø 1.5-3 cm (for a single cone).

Architectural elements – Architectural fragments, Pre-Islamic

Material:Clay/Ceramic |Type:MosaicsArchitectural elements |Countries:Iraq

  • Period

    4th millennium BC – AD 1258

  • Red List

    Emergency Red List – Iraq

Category

Architectural elements – Architectural fragments, Pre-Islamic
Figurative or geometric motifs. Friezes with gold and/or mosaic inlays, coloured tiles and glazed bricks. Sumerian cone mosaics (stone, terracotta) with exposed coloured ends. Classical Antiquity mural paintings with religious, military or daily life scenes; figures may have their names written beside them
© Vorderasiatisches Museum – SMB, Berlin / Olaf M. Teßmer