H-12, from Room H, Northwest Palace of Nimrud, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist

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© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
H-12, from Room H, Northwest Palace of Nimrud, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman.
Artist/Maker (Iraqi-American, born 1973)
Date2020
MediumMiddle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, on panel, with accompanying didactic information
DimensionsOverall: 90 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (229.9 × 92.7 × 9.5 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2021.5.1
Not on view
DescriptionH-12 Section of panel with top half of wingless apkallu LOCATION: Christ Church College, Oxford, England YEAR EXCAVATED: 1846 YEAR ACQUIRED: Unknown (gifted by Hormuzd Rassam) INVENTORY NUMBER: Unknown Fragment of panel with bottom part of wingless apkallu LOCATION: In situ until 2015; destroyed by ISIS in 2015 Fragment of panel LOCATION: Missing There were about 200 ancient panels. Daesh [Islamic State] stole some of them and destroyed the rest. —Major General Dhiya Kadhim al-Saidi
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Exhibition History 2021
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). MICHAEL RAKOWITZ: NIMRUD, October 19, 2020 - June 18, 2021.
Provenance 2021: Hamilton College (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art), by purchase from Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago.
Inscribed Cuneiform runs across center of panel.
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Date: 2021
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, on panel, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.2
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
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Date: c. 883-859 BCE
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Object number: 1868.5
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Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.6
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Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.11
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Medium: Reclaimed electronic components and insulated wire on panel
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Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.7
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Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.9
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Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.10
Photo by John Bentham.
Effigy pipes
Unknown artist
Date: after 1850
Medium: Cast plaster with pigment
Object number: S2023.3.1-3
Hon. Charles H. Truax (1846-1910), Class of 1867
Hon. Charles H. Truax (1846-1910), Class of 1867
Fitzgerald C. Peploe
Date: 1903
Medium: Bronze
Object number: 19XX.8
Photograph by John Bentham.
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Graham Sutherland
Date: 1946
Medium: Double-sided painting: ink and gouache (recto); gouache (verso) on board
Object number: 1991.217a-b