Sardis Column Correspondence Cards - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Sale - Sardis Column Correspondence Cards

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This classic, elegant design is adapted from the marble Ionic capital and shaft that is now in the Museum's collection and was once part of the great Temple of Artemis at Sardis, the capital of Lydia in Asia Minor (present-day Turkey). The column was found during excavations conducted from 1910 through 1914 by an American archaeological team from Princeton University. The temple, dedicated to Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt and of the moon, ranks among the seven largest of all Greek temples. The original column would have risen to a height of fifty-six feet and was part of one of two similar pairs of columns that would have stood in the east and west porches of the temple. The shortened form of the column, now in the Museum, allows the viewer to appreciate the fine carving of the foliate ornaments on the capital as well as the fish-scale pattern on the torus molding at its base.

25 gold-embossed white correspondence cards, 25 white envelopes per box. 4 7/8 in. x 6 1/4 in.

Special offer, save 13% when you buy in multiples of two. See details.

Original price $22.95

Sardis Column Correspondence Cards
11-014339
Member Price: $10.33 each
Non-Member Price: $11.48 each

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