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Temple Pendant with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Geometric and Vegetal Motifs (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Temple Banner
China
18th century
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Niiro Chōnosuke
early 20th-century copy of 8th-century original
Cuneiform cylinder: Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus describing his work on three temples
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Temple Model
Mexica (Aztec)
1400–1521
Temple Model
Mexica (Aztec)
1400–1521
Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah/Belet-ili at Babylon
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BC
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Cylinder seal and modern impression: ritual scene before a temple facade
ca. 3500–3100 BCE
Temple Hanging with a Hindu Devotee
India (Tamil Nadu), for the Sri Lankan market
late 17th - first quarter of the 18th century
Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Gudea: dedicated when Gudea built the Eninnu temple for the god Ningirsu
Neo-Sumerian
ca. 2090 BCE
Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nabonidus describing work on Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash, at Sippar
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE
Temple banner with Brahmanical deities and ascetics
Nepal
early 15th century
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Temple Banner
China
18th century
Temple Pendant, One of a Pair
late 19th–early 20th century
Temple Pendant with Filigree Border
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Cuneiform tablet: temple account of bread
Babylonian or Achaemenid
ca. 7th–4th century BCE
Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”
Neo-Sumerian
ca. 2090 BCE
One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Confronted Birds (front) and Human Heads (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Cuneiform tablet: copy of record of entitlement and exemptions to formerly royal lands granted by the šatammu (high priest) of the Esangila temple
Seleucid
ca. 173 BCE
Buddhist Temple Streamer (one of a pair)
China
Eleven-headed bodhisattva Guanyin
China
1778
Ritual bell with archaistic design, note guxi
China
1761
Brick with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II recording his work on Ezida, the temple of the god Nabu at Borsippa
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE
Temple Pendant with Two Sirens Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Confronted Birds (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century
Temple Strut with a Tree Goddess (Shalabhanjika)
Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)
ca. late 8th to 10th century
Temple Model
Mexica (Aztec)
15th–early 16th century
Temple Hanging (?) one of a pair
China
19th century
Scenes from the Thiri Rama, the Burmese adaptation of the Ramayana
Myanmar (Burma), Yangon or Mandalay
ca. 1870–85
Cuneiform tablet: measurements of the interior of the E-sagil temple
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. late 4th century BCE–early 3rd century CE
Buddhist Temple Streamer (one of a pair)
China
Temple Banner
China
19th century
Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah/Belet-ili at Babylon
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BC
Temple Model
Colima
200 BCE–200 CE
“Udumbara Flowers” (Udonge) Temple Plaque
Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki)
carved 1741
Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725
Brick with inscription of Ashurbanipal describing building work on Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil at Nippur
Assyrian
ca. 668–631 BCE