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The molding is decorated with a vegetal motif known as lesbian leaf, after the island of Lesbos. This fragment is from the same anta capital as the piece (26.59.12a,b) displayed nearby and was located just beneath it.
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Title: Marble fragment of an anta (pilaster) capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Period: Hellenistic
Date: early 3rd century BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: H.,7 1/2", W.,8", D.,91/2"
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926
Object Number: 26.199.277
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