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"Foundation Nail" of Gudea
c. 2100 BCE
- Medium
- copper alloy, lost-wax cast
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 17.5 x 4.5 x 7.3 cm (6 7/8 x 1 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.); with base: 20.9 x 6.3 x 9.1 cm (8 1/4 x 2 1/2 x 3 9/16 in.)
- Culture
- Mesopotamia, Neo-Sumerian, Iraq, probably Lagash
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The ruler Gudea placed one of these special nails in every temple he built in order to commemorate it.
