Skip to main content

Glazed brick fragment, from Nineveh

Image attached to ANE.62a.1930

An image of Architectural element. Brick fragment, glazed with yellow, white and green-grey. Find Spot/Production: Tell Kuyunjik (Nineveh), Iraq. Clay, depth 0.08 m, length 0.115 m, width 0.15 m, circa 704- 624 B.C.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

About this image

Architectural element. Brick fragment, glazed with yellow, white and green-grey. Find Spot/Production: Tell Kuyunjik (Nineveh), Iraq. Clay, depth 0.08 m, length 0.115 m, width 0.15 m, circa 704- 624 B.C.

Image data

  • Accession Number: ANE.62A.1930
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 819 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 167.41kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2010:07:29 13:38:41

Key words

7th Century 8th Century antiquity architectural element BC brick brick wall clay Fitz_ANT fragment glazed Iraqi Nineveh wall walls

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Glazed brick fragment, from Nineveh" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-200628 Accessed: 2025-12-10 14:32:22

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-200628 |title=Glazed brick fragment, from Nineveh |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-10 14:32:22|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-200628

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant47/ANE_62A_1930_1_201007_mfj22_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Brick"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Glazed brick fragment, from Nineveh</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>
    

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...