Fragments of Rectangular Plaque with Three Rows of Reliefs, 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…
Fragments of Rectangular Plaque with Three Rows of Reliefs, 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 John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (Iraqi-American, born 1973)
Date2020
MediumMiddle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
DimensionsOverall: 16 in. × 10 1/8 in. × 7/8 in. (40.6 × 25.7 × 2.2 cm)
Credit LinePurchase, William G. Roehrick '34 Art Acquisition and Preservation Fund
Object number2021.5.7
On view
DescriptionInventory number: Unknown Excavation numbers: Kh. III 1136, Kh. III 1170, Kh. I 195, Kh. I 632 Provenance: Khafaje Dimension(s): 40.5 x 25 cm (complete) Material: Bituminous stone Date: Unknown Description: Four fragments of left half of rectangular plaque with three rows of reliefs; round hole in center Status: Unknown What happened and what did not happen with regard to Iraq’s heritage cannot be changed. —Milbry Polk and Angela M. H. Schuster
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Exhibition History 2024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).

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.
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Rectangular Base of Statue with Feet and Lower Legs, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.5
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Fragment of Plaque with Relief Decoration, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
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
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Fragment of Female Head, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.11
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Male Head, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.4
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Bowl, Ubaid Period, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
Michael Rakowitz
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.8
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Headless Standing Female Figure, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
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
© Michael Rakowitz. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton Colle…
Bowl, Billah Ware, from the series The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist
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
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Plaque depicting Virabhadra and associated deities
Date: 19th century
Medium: Brass
Object number: 1994.40
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Funerary urn
Date: c. 350-600 CE
Medium: Terracotta with remnants of pigment
Object number: 2002.16
© Stanley Greenberg. Image courtesy of Light Work, Syracuse, NY. For educational purposes only.
Untitled, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Stanley Greenberg
Date: 2002
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2020.8.31
© 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
Date: 2020
Medium: Middle Eastern food packaging, Arabic-language U.S. newspapers, and glue, on panel, with accompanying didactic information
Object number: 2021.5.1
Not So Easily Played Upon, from "Harper's Weekly"
Not So Easily Played Upon, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published April 27, 1872
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.177