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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
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
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
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

Double Festoon Relief Fragment with Putto's Head
16th century
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design
1972/2.56
Engaged capital carved in grayish, coarse sandstone (arkose). The bell-shaped drum is decorated with a pattern of vine rinceau that encircles palmette leaves in a roughly symmetrical arrangement on each face of the capital. These ornamental plant forms are deeply undercut to highlight the pattern in sharp relief. A pair of volutes decorated with vertical striations springs from the vine rinceau in the upper portion of each face of the capital. A rosette enclosed in a circle appears at the top edge of the center of each face of the capital, above the point where the branches of the volutes diverge.
French (French (culture or style))
Engaged capital with vine rinceau, palmette leaves, and rosettes
1100 – 1125
Museum Purchase
1982/1.273
A conglomerate of polygonal structures in a state of ruin, some covered in low-relief carvings, stand amid rocky and uneven terrain. 
Pascal Sebah (Turkish (culture or style))
Thèbes. Medinet-Abou. Temple de Rhamsès III
1875 – 1885
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
1980/1.206
A curved stone, originally a facing on the drum of a small stupa, carved with a narrative scene.
Artist Unknown, Gandhara (Ancient Pakistan and Afghanistan)
Scenes from the Life of the Buddha: Adoration of the Buddha Dimpakara, Conception, Prophecy, Birth (architectural fragment)
100 – 299
Gift of Iuliana and Mark Phillips
1997/2.36
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