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Under the Seljuk rule, Persia gained a period of economic and cultural prosperity. The innovative techniques of the Seljuk period and style in architecture and the arts had a strong influence on later artistic developments. Seljuk art is...

This is an inscribed sun-dried brick used in temple construction. It was commissioned by the Sumerian king Amar-Suen (reigned c. 2094-2038 BCE) of the Third Dynasty of Ur. Translation of the inscription: Amar-Suen, the one called by (the...

King Nebuchadnezzar II's building program at Babylon used around 15,000,000 baked bricks. Thousands bore his name and titles stamped into the clay: "Nebuchadnezzar...the eldest son of Nabopolassar, King of Babylon, am I". On this brick, a...

The cuneiform inscription on this brick stamp mentions the name of the Akkadian king Shar-Kali-Sharri (reigned 2217 - 2193 BCE) and his building work of the temple of Enlil. From Southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. On display at the Iraq Museum...

This cuneiform inscription on this fragment of a large brick mentions the name of the Neo-Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, reigned 858-824 BCE, and the construction of a temple at the city of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu; Biblical Calah). From Nimrud...

Brick Stamp of Legio I Adiutrix. Terra Sigillata-Museum, Rheinzabern.

This is a stamped mud brick with cuneiform inscriptions, which lies within a building's wall in ancient Babylonia (modern Babylon governorate), Mesopotamia, Iraq.

Stamped mud brick from the temple and ziggurat of God Nabu. Borsippa, Mesopotamia, Iraq.

Mud brick stamped with the name and titles of the Neo-Sumerian king Ur-Nammu (r. 2047-2030 BCE, short chronology) from the ziggurat of Ur, southern Mesopotamia, Iraq. Note the dog's paw print; this "footprint" might well have been "stamped"...

A close-up view of a partially broken stamped mud-brick. I found the brick on the earth! Babylon, modern-day Bebel Governorate, Iraq.