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Amulet with a Lamashtu Demon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
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Title: Amulet with a Lamashtu demon
Period: Neo-Babylonian
Date: 7th-6th Century BC
Geography: Mesopotamia
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 1.97 x 2.44 x 0.55 in. (5 x 6.2 x 1.4 cm)
Classification: Stone-Ornament, Inscribed
Credit Line: Purchase, 1886
Accession Number: 86.11.2
On View
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/ancien...
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Lamashtu, a female leonine demon with talons and blood-stained paws, was thought to usher in disease and death upon hot winds from the west. On the limestone amulet, she is shown suckling a pig and a dog and grasping double-headed snakes. While her malevolence was directed primarily against pregnant women and babies, the obsidian amulet bears a prayer that reads, "Do not approach the sick man." Each amulet depicts ceremonial objects and offerings to appease the demon: a lamp, legs of lamb, a shoe, a comb, and a spindle. Images of Pazuzu were used to counteract Lamashtu and drive her back into the underworld.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
Period: Neo-Babylonian
Date: 7th-6th Century BC
Geography: Mesopotamia
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 1.97 x 2.44 x 0.55 in. (5 x 6.2 x 1.4 cm)
Classification: Stone-Ornament, Inscribed
Credit Line: Purchase, 1886
Accession Number: 86.11.2
On View
Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/ancien...
and
Lamashtu, a female leonine demon with talons and blood-stained paws, was thought to usher in disease and death upon hot winds from the west. On the limestone amulet, she is shown suckling a pig and a dog and grasping double-headed snakes. While her malevolence was directed primarily against pregnant women and babies, the obsidian amulet bears a prayer that reads, "Do not approach the sick man." Each amulet depicts ceremonial objects and offerings to appease the demon: a lamp, legs of lamb, a shoe, a comb, and a spindle. Images of Pazuzu were used to counteract Lamashtu and drive her back into the underworld.
Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.
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