Column Capital
Unknown Artist
c. 960–76
Medium
Marble
Dimensions
{"overall":{"height":0.26,"width":0.37,"depth":0.285}}
Classification
Sculpture
Department
Islamic Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
Accession Number
2021.4
About this artwork
This capital 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.