Stone "Arm"

7000 BC - 6000 BC
Limestone
Jarmo
41 cm x 14.5 cm x 10.5 cm
A66677

Oriental Institute Museum

Stone "Arm"

Houses built at Jarmo, Iraq, had doors that were hung on wooden pivots, which were held in place by a decorated stone "arm" such as this one at the top, and a hollowed-out pivot stone at the bottom. An example of such a door can be seen on the Jarmo House Model included in this database.



Multimedia

A House from Jarmo
Learn more about daily life after examining this model of a house from the ancient Neolithic settlement of Jarmo.

Suggested Readings

Leick, Gwendolyn. A Dictionary of Ancient Near Eastern Architecture. London: Routledge, 1988.

Roaf, Michael. Cultural Atlas of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East. New York: Facts on File, 1990.

Scarre, Chris. Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1993.