Nail Head of Warad-Sin

1834-1825 BCE (Old Babylonian)

4.5 cm 14.9 cm

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The focus of the very small, precise cuneiform characters of this large nail head is the renovation of the Dilmun Temple of the goddess Inanna (Ishtar) in Ur by Warad-Sin, ruler (lugal) of the city-state of Larsa. Warad-Sin hopes that the goddess will honor him with long-life...

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Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Joseph Brummer, New York, 1941, [Brummer inv. no. N5018]; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by purchase.
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