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Fluted marble Ionic column with scroll capital on a dark plinth, displayed in a museum hall flanked by glass cases with vases and white columns.

Marble column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

A large fluted marble Ionic column stands on a dark square plinth in a museum gallery, with volute capital, carved egg-and-dart molding, and a torus base. Two glass cases with painted vases flank it beneath a colonnade of pale columns.

Artist
Unknown
Date
ca. 300 BCE
Medium
Marble
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
3738 × 3790 px
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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of The American Society for the Excavation of Sardis, 1926

Español: Columna jónica de mármol, periodo helenístico

Una gran columna jónica de mármol acanalada se alza sobre un pedestal oscuro de planta cuadrada en una sala de museo. Se aprecian el capitel de volutas, el molduraje tallado y la base de toro. A los lados, dos vitrinas con vasijas pintadas bajo una columnata de tonos claros.

Português: Coluna jônica de mármore, período helenístico

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