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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.

Ionic marble column base and capital, Hellenistic period

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

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