Friday, 2 October 2026

Decorated Mesopotamian weight of 2600 BC and proposed uses for the object

Bag-shaped object with an arched handle, its front carved in relief with eyes and eight-pointed rosettes.

DIOR MINI handbag, Ancient Mesopotamia, 2600 BC. Regarded as a decorated weight, but it may quite as well have served as a part of a loom, for religious purposes, as part of a dowry or as a gift

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