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for Rectangular Base of Statue with Feet and Lower Legs, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Artist/Maker
Michael Rakowitz
(Iraqi-American, born 1973)
Date2020
MediumMiddle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
DimensionsOverall: 1 3/4 × 1 3/8 × 1 3/8 in. (4.4 × 3.5 × 3.5 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2021.5.5
On view
DescriptionInventory number: Unknown
Excavation number: Kh. IV 308
Provenance: Khafaje
Dimension(s): 4.3 x 3 x 2.9 cm
Material: Limestone
Date: Early Dynastic II–III (ca. 2600–2400 bce)
Description: Rectangular base of statue with feet and legs; dowel hole in center
Status: Unknown
We also have some good number of items seized in neighboring countries: 38 pieces in Kuwait, 18 in Saudi Arabia, 1,250 in Jordan, 360 in Syria. We have 300 in Italy and over 600 in the United States. They have surfaced in those countries and been seized by the authorities there. Our museum is very close to Haifa Street, where we have incidents almost daily. We believe this is not the right time now to have [the pieces] back. Since we know all about them and are promised them back whenever we want them, it is better to keep them in these countries.
—Donny George
Collections
Additional Details
Exhibition History
2021
Clinton, NY (Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College). MICHAEL RAKOWITZ: NIMRUD, October 19, 2020 - June 18, 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.
Date: c. 883-859 B.C.E.
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.3
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.125
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.106
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 1st century
Medium: Drawn and tooled glass
Object number: 2015.6.36
Unknown artist, Roman (Ancient)
Date: 1st century
Medium: Drawn and tooled glass
Object number: 2015.6.44
Thomas Nast
Date: published May 8, 1875
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.282
Jamea Richmond-Edwards
Date: 2018
Medium: Pigment print with silkscreen diamond dust and gold foil
Object number: 2020.1
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.124
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.113
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Color lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.109