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Column Base

c. 960–76
(756–1031)
Marble
Overall: 15 x 20.5 x 20.5 cm (5 7/8 x 8 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)
Weight: 10.82 kg (23.85 lbs)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 2021.5
Location: 116 Islamic
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In the mid-1800s the ruins of Madinat al-Zahra were rediscovered and the source of great fascination as people imagined a palace like that in the stories of 1001 Nights.

Description

This base comes from the palatial city of Madinat al-Zahra near Cordoba (Spain) which was begun by caliph Abd al-Rahman III (r. 912–61) around 936. Large parts of the Iberian Peninsula were then under Islamic rule and experienced a cultural flowering. The city, destroyed already in 1010, was the most magnificent palace complex in Europe at the time.
Column Base

Column Base

c. 960–76

Spain, Cordoba, Spanish Umayyad period (756–1031)

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