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Column Capital
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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.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineColumn Capital, c. 960–76. Spain, Cordoba, Madinat al-Zahra, Spanish Umayyad period (756–1031). Marble; overall: 26 x 37 x 28.5 cm (10 1/4 x 14 9/16 x 11 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2021.4
