Two copper lion foundation pegs and a white stone tablet, displayed here in reproduction, record the construction of a temple to Nergal by Tish-Atal, king of Urkesh. The lions are stylistically related to southern Mesopotamian art of the late third millennium BCE; the tablet can be placed in the same time range. The copper pegs would have been deposited in the foundations of a temple, whose construction they commemorated. These objects may in fact have come from Mozan, ancient Urkesh, but because they were not properly excavated, the circumstances of their discovery and their archaeological contexts will never be known.