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Antefix with the head of Medusa, 6th century B.C., Tarantine; Said to be from Taranto, Terracotta (26.60.73)
Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall, last quarter of 16th century, India, Gujarat, Patan, Teak with traces of color (16.133)
Dish in the Form of a Temple, 3rd–5th century, Roman or Byzantine; Found in Carthage (now in Tunisia, North Africa), Rock crystal (55.135.5)
Eagle Relief, 10th–13th century, Mexico; Toltec, Andesite/dacite, paint (93.27.2)
Foundation peg in the shape of the forepart of a lion, 2200–2000 B.C., Probably Tell Mozan (ancient Urkish), northeastern Syria, Bronze (48.180)
Ionic capital, torus (foliated base), and parts of a fluted column shaft from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, 4th century B.C., Greek, Lydian, Marble (26.59.1)
Magical stela, Late Period, Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II, ca. 360–343 B.C., Egyptian, Greywacke (50.85)
Maitreya altarpiece, 5th year of the Zhengguang era, dated 524; Northern Wei dynasty, Hebei Province, China, Gilt bronze (38.158.1a-n)
The Old Plum, Edo period, ca. 1645, Attributed to Kano Sansetsu (Japanese), Four sliding door panels (fusuma); ink, color, gold leaf on paper (1975.268.48a-d)
Orthostat relief: hunting scene, 850–830 B.C.; Neo-Hittite period, Excavated at south wall of Temple Palace, Tell Halaf, northern Syria, Basalt (43.135.2)
Pagode: Costumes Parisiennes, 1914, Étienne Drian (French), Hand-colored print (LY62.38.1[20])
Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon head and wind chime, Late Unified Silla–early Koryô dynasty, 10th century, Korea, Gilt bronze (1999.263ab)
Standing man, 1st–2nd century A.D.; Parthian period, Iran, Gray stone (51.72.1)
Temple of Dendur, Roman period, ca. 15 B.C., Egyptian; Dendur, Nubia, Sandstone (68.154)
Temple of Edfu, 1867, Gustave Le Gray (French), Albumen silver print from paper negative (2005.100.192)
Temple strut with a devata standing on a hermit sage, 13th century, Nepal, Wood (1988.148.2)
Textile Tent Divider, 19th–20th century, Sudan; Beja peoples, Cotton, leather, beads, cowrie shells, palm leaf (1996.455)
Various Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples, from Julien-David Le Roy's Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce (1758): Plate 20 of Della magnificenza ed architettura de' romani, 1761, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian), Engraving (41.71.1.7.20)

Thematic Essays (19)