Keywords: William de Brailes - Lot and his Family Flee Sodom (Genesis 19 -15-26) - Walters W1064R - Full Page.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator William de Brailes This page from Walters manuscript W 106 depicts a scene from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah Having saved Lot and his family from the Sodomites the angels instructed him to flee the city with his wife and two daughters because the angels were about to destroy it Lot lingered so they took his hand and those of his family and placed them outside the city and instructed them to flee to the small city of Zoar without looking back However Lot's wife disobeyed and upon looking back she was turned into a pillar of salt ca 1250 Medieval ink pigment parchment cm 13 2 9 5 accession number W 106 4R 5435 Léon Gruel Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters Baltimore June 6 1903 by purchase see The Diaries of George Lucas Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1903 Translation The inscription below the image reads God commanded Lot and his wife and his daughters to go out of Sodom without looking back Lot's wife looked back God changed her into a salty rock ; Transliteration Above Sodom foudre lot e sa du fiiles sa femme ; Transliteration Below deu comaunda lot e sa femm e sas fiiles aler hors de sodom sens regarder la feme lot regarda deu la mua en une pere saline place of origin Oxford England United Kingdom Walters Art Museum license 2D Walters MS W106 - Bible Pictures by William de Brailes Lot's wife made into a pillar of salt Lot flees as Sodom burns Sodom burning |