Ancient Art and Symbols

Archaeological engravings and wall art from different ancient cultures, depicting construction, figures, or ritualistic scenes from antiquity.

Hopi rock art located near by to the town of Old Oriabi, Arizona along sandstone rock walls on Third Mesa. The school girl figure was made around the turn of the century, early 1900's

Black-Figure Eye Cup”. Artist: FC Painter (P. Heesen)

Stele of a Warrior. 1100-850 BC. Stone. Late Bronze Age. From Fuente de Cantos (province of Badajoz, Extremadura), Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Petroglyph with a large whorl in the center. It depicts the sun circling in the sky. Below, two horses face to face. 400-550 AD. The whirlwheel is the most common motif on the oldest picture stones. Iron Age. Havor, Hablingbo, Gotland Island. The Swedish History Museum. Stockholm. Sweden.

Fragment with Figural and Architectural Decoration Coptic. Fragment with Figural and Architectural Decoration, 5th-7th century C.E. Flax, wool, 3 1/8 x 4 3/4 in. (8 x 12 cm). Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art 5th-7th century C.E.

relieve esculpido de una luna con rostro, Ca n Sa Lluna, calle de Sa Lluna, Soller, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

TEJIDO DE LANA COPTO. Location: ALHAMBRA-MUSEO TEXTIL. GRANADA. SPANIEN.

five-armed swastika in relief, second Lombera stele, giant disc-shaped Cantabrian stele, 1st century BC. C., Corrales de Buelna, Lombera, Museum of prehistory and archeology , Santander, Cantabria, Spain.

Stone face of mayan warrior in tunnel in Copan, Honderas

St Thomas of Aquinas, by Guido di Pietro (Piero) known as Beato Angelico, 1438 - 1446, 15th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Florence, San Marco Convent, cloister. Whole artwork. Overdoor painted lunette St Thomas Aquinas.

Spandrel decoration from Santa Maria de Taüll. Date/Period: After 1123. Mural painting. Fresco transferred to canvas. Height: 1,000 mm (39.37 in); Width: 750 mm (29.52 in). Author: UNKNOWN.

PINTURAS: REPRESENTACIONES ANINALES. SU NUMERACION: PII 1 152 001R BIS.

Tumba de Paheri. Paheri era el nieto de Ahmose hijo de Ebana, y sirvió bajo las órdenes de Tutmosis III. Ostentó varios cargos, fue Intendente de Nekheb, así como Escriba de Amon, Tutor del Príncipe, y Jefe de los sacerdotes de la diosa Nejbet, entre otros.

Warrior and snake, detail of carved frieze, Tzompantli, or Wall of Skulls, archaeological site of Chichen Itza (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1988), Yucatan, Mexico. Mayan civilization.

Pennant of the Captain's Ship at the Battle of Lepanto, around 1571. Linen painted in tempera, Detail of the imperial coat of arms of the House of Austria., Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Galicia.

Stencilled hands on cave roof, Carnarvon Station, Central Queensland Highlands, Australia. 01/11/2001

Replica painting from the Cave of Altamira (Cueva de Altamir) located near the historic town Santillana del Mar in Cantabria, Spain, is renowned for its numerous parietal cave paintings featuring charcoal drawings and polychrome paintings of contemporary local fauna and human hands, created between 18,500 and 14,000 years ago during the Upper Palaeolithic by Paleo human settlers. The earliest paintings in the cave were executed around 35,600 years ago.

ESCUDO labrado en piedra del antiguo reino de la Corona de Aragón. Ayuntamiento de Vilafranca del Penedès. Comarca del Alt Penedès. Provincia Barcelona. Cataluña.

Pompeii. Ancient roman city. Public fountain in Via Vicolo di Modesto. Detail relief. Italy. Campania, Italy.

Honorary decree for Rheboulas. The Demos of Athens grants Rheboulas, son of the Odrysian King Seuthes III, the title of Athenian citizen, in the context of the Athenian anti-Macedonian policy. The relief depicts the Goddess Athena and Rheboulas. 331-330 BC. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece.

Side Panel from a Sarcophagus 12th-13th century North China The headstone of this sarcophagus is embellished with an acting troupe poised to perform on the balcony of a two-story building. The side panels feature narrative scenes illustrating twenty-four stories of filial piety. A very similar set of engraved illustrations was discovered on the sarcophagus of Pan Dechong (1191-1256), who was buried in 1260 on the grounds of the Yongle Palace, a famous Daoist temple located in southwestern Shanxi Province. Pan was a leading member of the Quanzhen sect of northern Daoism, which advocated the importance of filial behavior, so it is not surprising that the Confucian theme of filial paragons was adopted to decorate his sarcophagus. The significance of the theatrical troupe is still unclear.These narrative scenes are a popular manifestation of the subject matter and fine-line drawing style of the scholar-artist Li Gonglin (ca. 1041-1106), particularly his Classic of Filial Piety of around 10

Runestone from Mojra Hagby in Uppland, Sweden, 6th century Artist: Unknown.

Tumba de Paheri. Paheri era el nieto de Ahmose hijo de Ebana, y sirvió bajo las órdenes de Tutmosis III. Ostentó varios cargos, fue Intendente de Nekheb, así como Escriba de Amon, Tutor del Príncipe, y Jefe de los sacerdotes de la diosa Nejbet, entre otros.

Gravestone, St. Kilian's Cathedral, St. Kilian's Cathedral, Wuerzburg, Franconia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

rock painting, argentina, patagonia, santa cruz province, rock painting of the cueva de los manos , unesco world heritage centre. date: 08.12.2008 ref: zb1039_125994_0039 compulsory credit: nhpa/photoshot

Frieze from Xanthos depicting wild fowl which may have been sacrificial offerings to the deceased. Dated 470 BC

Pompeii, Italy, Pompeian inhabitants petrified in their last situation of life, Southern Italy

Stone Mural telling the story of a victorious battle, Israel National Museum, in Jerusalem, Israel

Arch segment with dragon and human head. Detail. Cologne, ca. 1200-1230. Fragment from a portal. Schnu_tgen Museum. Cologne, Germany.

Fragment of a Band with Musicians and Warriors 4th-6th century This band (clavus) with musicians and warriors likely decorated a tunic with Dionysian themes. Here the musicians play the pan flute (syrinx) and a flute (monaulos).. Fragment of a Band with Musicians and Warriors 444301

Rock painting in the cave of Ekain in Cestona Spain

Native American petroglyphs at Petroglyph National Monument, outside Albuquerque, New Mexico

bake Miejska M. Czyca; 1781 (1781-00-00-1781-00-00);urban seals, seals at documents, official seals, seals with an architectural building, seals with the city of the city, Żurakowski, Witold ( -1927)- collection

ESTATUA YACENTE DEL CABALLERO DE MALTA - SIGLO XVI. Author: ANONIMO SIGLO XVI. Location: MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES-PALACIO ABARCA. SALAMANCA. SPAIN.

Tzompantli Stone, Templo Mayor, Mexico City, Mexico

remains of mural painting remains of mural painting Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 23030357

Egyptian Reliefs, Luxor, Egypt

Italy. Pompeii. Ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of the Vesuvius in 79 AD. Small Theatre or Odeon, built in 80 BC. Remains of a balustrade with a winged gryphon (lion's paw). Area of Ima cavea reserved to decurions. Campania.

Bocca della Verita, Rome, Italy

Ramses Statue at Karnak Temple near Luxor, Egypt, Africa

Umbria Terni Narni S. Domenico9. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: 1965 photos, 29 Architecture, architectural sculpture (12th century); Wall painting (13-16th century); Mosaic, cosmati style pavement (c. 1200) 1986 photos, 44 Architecture, architectural sculpture, cosmati pavement, sculpture. Post-medieval: 1965 photos, 56 Frescoes, painting (13-16th century); sculpture (14-16th century) 1986 photos 167 Frescoes, painting, sculpture, metalwork Antiquities: 1986 Weaponry Object Notes: Church deconsecrated and modified for use as museum, 1970 General Notes: Bibliographic material sent, Getty Center library () German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissa

OLEO Y TIERRA SOBRE LIENZO. Author: MANRIQUE, CESAR. Location: MUSEO DE ARTE ABSTRACTO, CUENCA, SPAIN.

Frieze on the main street in Perga, Perge, southern Turkey, Asia

Sculpted facade ornament, sphinx on basement, facade ornament ornament building component sandstone stone , -c 325 kg sculpted Vertical sphinx carved from one piece on base. Decorated with curls scales and shell. Next to window in large building Boompjes Rotterdam City center Stadsdriehoek merchant's house regence bombardment Second World War From the building on the Boompjes Rotterdam from rubble after the bombing of May 1940.rtrdmscndtrns4822

Ancient Greece. Detail of the grave stele of the brothers Sosimenes and Socrates, from the deme of Athmonon. The funerary urn is depicted as a small jug on the relief loutrophoros. First half of the 4th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Greece.

Ireland, County Mayo, Murrisk. Details of the sculptured metal skeletons on the national Famine Memorial, created by John Behan.

Base of a funerary kouros with six athletes. 510 -500 BC. Archaic Greek art. Relief on marble. GREECE. ATTICA. Athens. National Museum of Archaeology. Proc: GREECE. ATTICA. Athens. Acropolis.

Tiled mural, Israel National Museum, in Jerusalem, Israel

Kreuzunterstützung mit einer Gruppe nackter Frauen Cross support with a group of naked women, 14th century, Girona art museum, Girona, Catalonia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22283296

rock art

British Virgin Islands, Beef Island. Rusted metal sculpture of a man playing guitar (Large format sizes available)

Egyptian Antiquities in the Louvre museum, Paris, France.

Chile, Easter Island aka Rapa Nui. Rapa Nui National Park, historic site of Papa Vaka (stone canoe). Petroglyph of octopus carved into lava rock.

Anthropomorphic terracotta sarcophagus. Found in Ghar Barka, on the outskirts of Rabat (Malta). 6th century BC. National Museum of Archaeology. Valletta. Malta.

Large jar from the 18th Dynasty. Made during the reign of Akhenaten. Circa 1353-1336 B. Made from fired clay and polished ochre slip. Painted with blue red and black paint. Probably from Amarna.

The Viminacium Archaeological Site in Kostolac, Serbia. This site is of a Roman City and Militery Fortress

Pompeii. Fossilised corpses found in the Garden of the Fugitives. This group of Pompeian citizens was trapped at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius (79 AD). These are casts obtained by pouring liquid plaster into the 'voids' left in the ground after the bodies disappeared. Campania, Italy.

Aboriginal stencil art at Baloon Cave, Carnarvon National Park, Queensland, Australia. 01/11/2003

Romanesque art in the National Art Museum of Catalonia,Barcrelona,paintings of Santa Maria in Taüll (1123 AC).Boí valley.

Italy. Pompeii. Plaster casts of victim's bodies at the Garden of the Fugitives. The bodies of 13 people who were buried by the ashes as they attempted to flee Pompeii during the 79 AD eruption of the Vesuvius volcano. Campania.

DETALLE DE LOS LEBRELES DE LA CACERIA DE LOS ONAGROS - FRESCOS OMEYAS DEL LADO ORIENTAL DEL GRAN SALON DEL CASTILLO DE QUSEIR AMRA - VIII. Location: CASTILLO. QUSEIR AMRA.

Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: part of a female attendant (see 26.3.353-1) ca. 2051-2030 B.C. Middle Kingdom. Relief from the tomb of Queen Neferu: part of a female attendant (see 26.3.353-1). ca. 2051-2030 B.C.. Limestone, paint. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Neferu (TT 319, MMA 31), MMA excavations, 1923-25. Dynasty 11

Wooden Slit Gong, from the Small Nambas tribe of Island of Malekula, second-largest island in the nation of Vanuatu, in the Pacific Ocean region of Melanesia.

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Terme di Caracalla, mosaic detail.

Egypt, Ancient Thebes, Luxor, Valley of Nobles, Tomb of Ramose, fresco depicting funeral procession

Relief depicting tools of the trade, on Stele of dyer Gaio Pupuio Amico

Estatua femenina. Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona.

HERCULANEUM, ITALY, MAY 05, 2022, Ornate wall painting in an ancient house in Herculaneum

PILA CALIFAL S X. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. CORDOBA. SPANIEN.

19th century recreation of the Dendera zodiac a widely known Egyptian bas-relief from the ceiling of the pronaos (or portico) of a chapel dedicated to Osiris in the Hathor temple at Dendera, containing images of Taurus (the bull) and the Libra (the scales). This chapel was begun in the late Ptolemaic period

Royal Abbey of Fontevraud. Recumbent figures exhibited in the abbey church. Joan of England and Richard the Lionheart.. Fontevraud. France.

Fresco The Oriental Arts Objects, circa 5th-6th century, , Russia, St. Petersburg, Sogdian Art State Hermitage, 185x160

Depiction of birds, sculpture, Stella Maris church, Porto Cervo, Costa Smeralda, Sardinia, Italy, Europe

PALACIO - RELIEVE. Location: PALACIO. PALENQUE. CIUDAD DE MEXICO.

Ο εν Κεραμεικω ταυρος - Le taureau de Céramique , Bulls, Antiquities, Sculpture, Monuments & memorials. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

ABRIGO CERCA DE LA ENFERMERIA I CON PINTADAS DE SPRAY Y POSIBLE PINTURA RUPESTRE.

Australia, Northern Territory, Kakadu National Park. An aboriginal cave painting of a mythical figure.

Detail of a fresco with decoration of flowers and fruit from the Roman Villa of Boscoreale (Naples). Roman Civilization, 1st Century.

Bichrome mosaic floor in the apodyterium of the Bath situated immediately to the north of the Villa con ingresso a protiro, along the N-E shore of the Baianus lacus. The floor mosaic, in black and white tesserae, is framed by a monochrome triple band delimitating a central field with an agonistic subject, covering an area of approx. 12 square meters. In it four male figures are represented, made of black tesserae on a white background: two are athletes, testing themselves in wrestling, while the other two are badly preserved. As one of them holds a branch, he could probably be identified with the judge/trainer. Marine Protected Area of Baia, Naples, Italy, Tyrrhenian Sea

Starting from the Middle Ages, it was believed that if one told a lie with ones hand in the mouth of the sculpture, it would be bitten off

Faience, Ottoman period, Museum of Ceramic Works, Great Karatay Medrese, Konya, Turkey, Konya, Turkey, Asia

Cividale.

Stone relief, medieval guild coat of arms, Cres, island of Cres, Kvarner Gulf Bay, Croatia, Europe

grafitti de un obrero,Catedral de Mallorca , siglo XIII, Monumento Histórico-artístico, Palma, mallorca, islas baleares, españa, europa.

Human-headed winged bull (or edu) statues. Assyrian (circa 710-705 BC). Taken from Khorsabad. A protective spirit statue used to guard palace doorways.

Relief of erect penis in house wall

BRAC-1999- 89x116 cm- tecnica mixta. Author: ANTONI TAPIES (1923-2012). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Reliefs, Tomb of Tausert and Setnakht, KV14, Valley of the Kings, Ancient Thebes, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Luxor, Egypt, North Africa, Africa

Byzantine capital. 6th century. Prokonnesos marble. From the Church of Saint Polyeuctus, Constantinople. Archaeological Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain.

Italy. The Campania, Pompeii. Inscription in roman square capitals.

Dwarfie Stane, a mystical Neolithic chambered tomb on Hoy island, Inscription, Orkney islands, Scotland. (Large format sizes available)

museo arqueologico y de historia de Elche Alejandro Ramos Folqués, Elche, Alicante, comunidad Valenciana, Spain, Europe.

Painted buffalo hide by the Lakota indigenous people of the Great Plains of North America. Dated 19th Century

Roman mosaic. Commercial boats and lighthouse. From the Forum of the Corporations or Piazza delle Corporazione. Ostia Antica. Italy.

Antoni de Falguera; Pere Falqués; Eusebi Arnau / Interior sculptural relief of Eusebi Arnau (detail), in the upper part of the arch of the vestibule portal of the Breastfeeding House (by the architects Antoni de Falguera and Pere Falqués), 1908-1913, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Author: PERE FALQUÉS I URPÍ. EUSEBI ARNAU. ANTONI DE FALGUERA I SIVILLA.

Full scale reconstruction of the gates from the palace of Shalmaneser III (585-824 BC) at Balawat. It is made of cedarwood and fitted with electrotype copies of the original bronze bands.

Roman bas-relief depicting a postal wagon, Maria Saal Cathedral, Carinthia, Austria.

Fragment of the hose between the seated figures, kescrops and PDrosos

Prehistory. Model depicting the archaeological site of the Hagar Qim megalithic temple. Ggantija Phase (ca. 3600- 3200 BC). It settled on the top of a hill in the south of the island of Malta. National Museum of Archaeology. Valletta. Malta.

EU, Ukraine, Sevastopol, Panorama museum, huge painting of city during 1855 Crimean War seige (Editorial Usage Only)

Zeus statue near the Commagene King Antiochus I tomb on the top of Mount Nemrut, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Adiyaman province, Turkey, Asia Minor, Asia Copyright: G&MxTherin-Weise 1131-2080

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