Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at SardisMarble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at SardisMarble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at SardisMarble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at SardisMarble fragment of an Ionic column capital from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.