Bronze Openwork Plaque in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, June 2010

Openwork plaque

1894–1595 B.C.


Dimensions: height x width x depth (without base): 9 x 3.5 x .9 cm (3 9/16 x 1 3/8 x 3/8 in.)

Accession Number: 1995.53

Medium or Technique: Bronze


Openwork plaque depicting the demigod Lahmu, one of the doorkeepers of the watery domain of Enki/Ea, holding the flowing vase.

Provenance: By 1994: with the Mele Gallery, 147 E. 72nd St., New York, NY 10021; 1994: purchased by the MFA from the Mele Gallery, 27 July 1994

Credit Line: Morris and Louise Rosenthal Fund and William S. Smith Fund

Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/openwork-plaque-164701