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Temple Pendant, One of a Pair
late 19th–early 20th century
Lamaist Temple Hanging
China
17th century or earlier
Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nabonidus describing work on Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash, at Sippar
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Temple Model
Aztec
15th–early 16th century
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Map of China
Ai Weiwei
2006
Temple Hanging with a Hindu Devotee
India (Tamil Nadu), for the Sri Lankan market
late 17th - first quarter of the 18th century
Keman (Decorative Pendant Disk)
Japan
13th century
Robe for a Temple Figure
China
19th century
One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Busts of Male Saints Holding Martyr's Cross (front) and Leaf and Rosette Motifs (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Busts of Male Saints Holding Martyr's Cross (front) and Leaf and Rosette Motifs (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Temple Model
Colima
200 BCE–200 CE
Hanging Strip from Temple
China
19th century
Temple Strut with a Tree Goddess (Shalabhanjika)
Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)
ca. late 8th to 10th century
Scenes from the Thiri Rama, the Burmese adaptation of the Ramayana
Myanmar (Burma), Yangon or Mandalay
ca. 1870–85
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Temple Pendant with Filigree Border
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”
Neo-Sumerian
ca. 2090 BCE
Temple Banner
China
19th century
Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Gudea: dedicated when Gudea built the Eninnu temple for the god Ningirsu
Neo-Sumerian
ca. 2090 BCE
Temple Pendant with Filigree Border
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Stone Temple Model
Mezcala
1st–8th century
Temple Model
Aztec
1400–1521
Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah/Belet-ili at Babylon
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BC
One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Confronted Birds (front) and Human Heads (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Temple 7
William Wyman
1977
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Temple Pendant with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Geometric and Vegetal Motifs (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Eleven-headed bodhisattva Guanyin
China
1778
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Niiro Chōnosuke
early 20th-century copy of 8th-century original
Temple Hanging (?) one of a pair
China
19th century
Cuneiform cylinder: Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus describing his work on three temples
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Cuneiform tablet: measurements of the interior of the E-sagil temple
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. late 4th century BCE–early 3rd century CE
Cuneiform tablet: temple account
Achaemenid
ca. 482 BCE
Buddhist Temple Streamer (one of a pair)
China
Temple Model
Aztec
15th–early 16th century
Temple Banner
China
18th century
Banner with Bodhisattva, possibly Mahamayuri
China (Dunhuang area, Gansu Province)
9th–10th century