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Archaeologists found more than 150 tons of iron at the Assyrian capital city of Khorsabad. Some was in the form of ingots like this one; the rest had been worked into tools. The hole may have allowed ingots to be grouped together by use of rope.

View of the City of Babylon

Name: Iron Ingot

Material: Iron

Size:
Height: 33 cm (1 ft 1 in)
Width: 9.5 cm (3.7 in)
Depth: 4.5 cm (1.8 in)

Date: 717-705 BCE, Neo-Assyrian period

Place of Origin: Khorsabad, Iraq

Location: Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, Illinois

Source and Registration#:
Oriental Institute Museum A12461

Geoff Emberling

Former Chief Curator, Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago