Bronze
2200 -2100 BCE
West Asia
The British Museum
Details
Culture/Civilisation
Ancient Mesopotamia
Theme
The Great River Civilisations outside India: Mesopotamia, Egypt and China
Subtheme
Mesopotamia – The Land of the Two Rivers
Case Title
Mesopotamia - gods, temples and kings
Display Location
Coomaraswamy Hall
Findspot
Girsu, Iraq
Measurements
20 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm
Accession Number
1908,0417.2
Description
Temples to their many gods stood at the heart of Mesopotamian society.
Mesopotamians imagined a watery abyss underneath the earth. Temple foundations were secured by bronze mooring-pegs, symbolically connecting the worlds of gods and humans.
A divine figure kneels to ask the great god Ningirsu to protect the temple.
