30 UMMA Objects
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Oblique view of a pylon in front of which are set an obelisk and two humanoid sculptures, half submerged in sand. A minaret peaks through the break between the two vertical elements of the pylon.
Pascal Sebah (Turkish (culture or style))
Louqsor. Le Pylône
1875 – 1885
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
1980/1.203

Japanese (Japanese (culture or style))
Mirror or relief plaque with scene of Taigong Wang fishing
18th century
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.102
A black and white etching depicting several fragments of friezes and columns, followed by textual descriptions in Italian.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian (culture or style))
Frieze, Soffits, Columns, plate 9 from Trofei di Ottaviano Augusto innalzati per la vittoria ad Actium e conquista dell'Egitto con vari altri ornamenti antichi
1753
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink
1985/2.133
Fragment of circular gaming piece carved in elephant ivory in high relief. Standing male figure wearing knee-length robe holds sword in right hand and stabs inverted beast in the chest. Forelegs of beast end in hooves; head of beast characterized by large eye and pronounced nostril. Left arm of figure and rear half of the beast missing. Border contains zigzag pattern with bead motif.
Samson Carver, Pricked-Ivories Workshop, Cologne, Germany
Fragment of a gaming piece with male slaying beast, possibly Hercules and the Erymanthian boar, zigzag pattern with incised circles in border
1145 – 1155
Anonymous Gift
1987/1.262
A fragment of a stucco relief sculpture.
Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Buddha, seated in the padmasana pose, in dhyana mudra, attended by Indra
100 – 399
Museum purchase for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1961/2.83
A tabletop sculpture of a large structure and a man at the corner. The man is nude from the chest to his legs but his face and feet are wrapped in cloth. The whole sculpture is painted with red, black-brown and gold, with strong and visible brush marks. The artists's signature is chiseled into the two corner of the sculpture with the date "S di Giusti / 80".
Sergio De Giusti (Italian (culture or style))
Polychrome Metope
1980
Gift of H. David Zucca
2013/2.303
This print portrays an owl in a more abstract way.
Kawano Kaoru
Untitled [Owls]
1933 – 1966
Bequest of Alva Gordon Sink
1998/2.29
Black abstract print on tan paper with relief border around all sides. Horizontal relief in abstract shape on lower half of paper.
Keiichi Hayano
Passage 1
1975 – 1985
Gift of Marvin Eisenberg
2012/2.106
A large sheet of rough cream colored paper with irregular edges and bits of pulp within the surface. On this sheet is an abstract form in the shape of a life size human body. This form is created by swirling, energetic black lines and fiberous black blots.
Michele Oka Doner (American (North American))
Primal
2008
Given in honor fo former Director James Steward for his contribution to UMMA
2010/2.52
A post on a wide, flat base. The post features a protruding human face and the top is in the shape of an anvil. 
Susanna Linburg
Caryatid VII
1981 – 1987
Bequest of Gertrude Kasle
2016/2.103
This photograph depicts a view of some ancient stone ruins. Two columns stand in the center of the photograph, each bearing relief designs and carved hieroglyphics.
Felice Beato (British (modern))
Karnak, Les Deux Stelles Pilliers
1850 – 1862
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
1980/1.157
Close-up view of a low-relief sculpture that depicts a human figure in twisted perspective who holds out another, much smaller, seated human figure in one hand. The figures are surrounded by images of birds and plants, as well as hieroglyphics. 
Pascal Sebah (Turkish (culture or style))
Abidôs - Portrait de Séti I
1875 – 1885
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
1980/1.202
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