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This fragment of floral scroll ornament is from the underside of a bolster (long narrow cushion) of an Ionic column capital. While parallel decoration of the same scale does appear on the capital (26.59.1) displayed nearby, this fragment is not from that column.
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Title: Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis
Period: Hellenistic
Date: 3rd century BCE
Culture: Greek
Medium: Marble
Dimensions: Other: 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm)
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line: Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926
Accession Number: 26.199.280
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