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This massive stone is a fragment from the north jamb of the temple's east portal (see drawing). The east door was part of the major Roman renovations of the second century A.D.
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Title: Marble doorjamb fragment from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Period: Imperial, Hadrianic
Date: ca. 117–138 CE
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: 48 × 16 × 60 in., 2450 lb. (121.9 × 40.6 × 152.4 cm, 1111.3 kg)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926
Object Number: 26.59.11
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