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While walking through the Museum of Fine Arts, I came across a piece of ancient architecture, a column drum. This column drum, although found in Egypt, was actually roman because it originates from the Roman Imperial Period when Egypt was controlled by Rome under the reign of Augustus (30 B.C.-14 A.D.). Still remaining on the drum is remnants of a carving and painting depicting a ruler or pharaoh. The remaining traces of paint and gold leaf provide a glance at what this column once looked like. This shows how much time and effort was put into such small details such as a single column drum, which is just a small piece of a whole column and ultimately a tiny part of the entire structure. This reminds me of the amount of detail that went into the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. There were no straight lines in the construction at the Parthenon and everything had a slight curve in it down to fractions of an inch. This just shows how much effort was put into architecture in order to create beauty.