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“Udumbara Flowers” (Udonge) Temple Plaque
Yinyuan Longqi (Ingen Ryūki)
carved 1741

Brick with inscription of Ashurbanipal describing building work on Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil at Nippur
Assyrian
ca. 668–631 BCE

Polearm Temple Spear

Japanese

ca. 19th century

Administrative tablet: grant of land to a temple official (?)
Sumerian
ca. 3100–2900 BCE

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

Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom
China
17th–18th century

Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725

Temple Model
Mexica (Aztec)
15th–early 16th century

Temple Banner

China

18th century

Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Niiro Chōnosuke
early 20th-century copy of 8th-century original

Banner with Bodhisattva, possibly Mahamayuri
China (Dunhuang area, Gansu Province)
9th–10th century

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nabonidus describing work on Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash, at Sippar
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE

Keman (Decorative Pendant Disk)
Japan
13th century

Temple Pendant with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Geometric Lead Motifs (back)
Kyivan Rus’
ca. 1000–1200

Cuneiform cylinder: Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus describing his work on three temples
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: measurements of the interior of the E-sagil temple
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. late 4th century BCE–early 3rd century CE

Temple Hanging (?) one of a pair
China
19th century

Temple Bracket with a Devata Standing on a Hermit Sage
Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)
13th century or later

One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Confronted Birds (front) and Human Heads (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century

Temple Pendant with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Geometric and Vegetal Motifs (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century

Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II, describing the rebuilding of Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash at Sippar
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE

Lamaist Temple Hanging
China
17th century or earlier

Temple Strut with a Tree Goddess (Shalabhanjika)
Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)
ca. late 8th to 10th century

Robe for a Temple Figure

China

19th century