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One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Two Birds Flanking a Tree of Life (front) and Leaf and Rosette Motifs (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century

Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Niiro Chōnosuke
early 20th-century copy of 8th-century original

Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1665

Banner with Bodhisattva, possibly Mahamayuri
China (Dunhuang area, Gansu Province)
9th–10th century

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nabonidus describing work on Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash, at Sippar
Babylonian
ca. 555–539 BCE

Temple Pendant, One of a Pair
late 19th–early 20th century

Temple Banner
China
19th century

Temple Strut with a Tree Goddess (Shalabhanjika)
Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)
ca. late 8th to 10th century

Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah/Belet-ili at Babylon
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BC

Temple Bracket with a Devata Standing on a Hermit Sage
Nepal (Kathmandu Valley)
13th century or later

Cuneiform tablet: Sumerian dedicatory(?) inscription from Ekur, the temple of the god Enlil
Kassite
ca. 16th–15th century BCE

Cuneiform tablet impressed with seal: temple inventory, Esangila archive
ca. 327 BCE

Temple Hanging with Scenes from the Bhagavata Purana and the Ramayana
Northeast India (Assam)
early 17th century

Temple Model
Aztec
1400–1521

Temple Model
Aztec
15th–early 16th century

Keman (Decorative Pendant Disk)
Japan
13th century

Cuneiform tablet: account regarding temple sheep, Ebabbar archive
Achaemenid
ca. 519 BCE

Map of China
Ai Weiwei
2006

Cuneiform tablet: temple account
Achaemenid
ca. 482 BCE

China

1870

Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725

Cuneiform cylinder: inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing his work on Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash at Sippar
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE

Temple Pendant, One of a Pair
late 19th–early 20th century

Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Transcendent Wisdom
China
17th–18th century

Temple cloth celebrating Krishna (Picchavai) (border section)
India, Rajasthan
Late 18th century

Votive cone with cuneiform inscription of Gudea: dedicated when Gudea built the Eninnu temple for the god Ningirsu
Neo-Sumerian
ca. 2090 BCE

Temple banner with Brahmanical deities and ascetics
Nepal
early 15th century

Temple 7
William Wyman
1977

Stone Temple Model
Mezcala
1st–8th century

Temple Model
Aztec
15th–early 16th century

Polearm Temple Spear

Japanese

ca. 19th century

Lamaist Temple Hanging
China
17th century or earlier

Cuneiform tablet: temple account of bread
Babylonian or Achaemenid
ca. 7th–4th century BCE

Buddhist Temple Streamer (one of a pair)
China

Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II describing the rebuilding of the temple of the mother-goddess Ninmah/Belet-ili at Babylon
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE

Cuneiform tablet: measurements of the interior of the E-sagil temple
Seleucid or Parthian
ca. late 4th century BCE–early 3rd century CE

One of a Pair of Temple Pendants, with Confronted Birds (front) and Human Heads (back)
Kyivan Rus’
11th–12th century

Scenes from the Thiri Rama, the Burmese adaptation of the Ramayana
Myanmar (Burma), Yangon or Mandalay
ca. 1870–85

Cuneiform cylinder with inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II, describing the rebuilding of Ebabbar, the temple of the sun-god Shamash at Sippar
Babylonian
ca. 604–562 BCE

Keman (“Flower Garland” Temple Decoration)
Japan
ca. 1725