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Ancient Gate, part 1: Bronze Door Nails

This time on Artifactually Speaking, I talk about a door that's no longer there. But it was a big double door and we know (largely) what it looked like from the evidence left behind when it burned 2600 years ago. Not only are there remains of mudbrick walls and stone threshold blocks, but also pieces of copper or bronze plates that fastened the wooden planks, and many, many nails. We found around a hundred of these nails, all relatively similar, though some are bent from hammering and all are relatively warped with age, corrosion, and the heat of the fire that destroyed the door. The city was sacked and burned in 612 BCE and the evidence is quite clear here. Similar Assyrian double door gates have been found elsewhere, particularly at Balawat. This site, known as Imgur-Enlil in ancient times, is not far from Nimrud and the door bands and nails found there allowed the British Museum to reconstruct the gate to a great degree. The reconstruction is on display in London. Our doors were very similar, about 4 meters (around 13 feet) tall and 3 meters (nearly 10 feet) wide.