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Ancient Relief Artworks

Intricate relief carvings showcasing scenes from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, featuring deities, transportation, and offerings in muted colors.

Assyrian Ruler Tiglath-Pileser III Receives Homage; Panel from the Royal Palace at Nimrud; 745-727 B.C.E.; Limestone Unknown Artist; Florence
Assyrian Ruler Tiglath-Pileser III Receives Homage; Panel from the Royal Palace at Nimrud; 745-727 B.C.E.; Limestone Unknown Artist; Florence
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Egyptian Hieroglyphs- Saqqara Necropolis, Memphis, Egypt. Depicts man carrying goat like animal. Vintage engraved Photograph of Egypt, circa 1870s, from work by archeologist Auguste Mariette
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Cylinder seal ca. 6th-4th century B.C. Achaemenid. Cylinder seal 323891
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Bas reliefs on the outer wall of the Ramachandra Hazara Rama temple, One thousand Ramas built in the 1420 in Hampi, Karnataka, South India, India, Asia. UNESCO World Heritage Site, Asia
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Achaemenid Empire. Persepolis. Relief of a Mede soldier (round cap), detail . The tripylon or Central Palace. 5th century BC. Iran (Persia).
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Relief Engraving of Seti I Burning an Offering of Incense, Abydos, Egypt, Illustration, Cyclopaedia of Universal History, Volume 1, The Ancient World, by John Clark Ridpath, the Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1885
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Sandstone relief, Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Fort St. Peter, Castle of the Knights of St. John, Bodrum Fortress, Mugla, Turkey, Museum of Underwater Archaeology, Underwater Museum, Asia
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Luxor, Egypt, Africa
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This reconstruction corresponds in its essence to what an Assyrian palace chamber might have looked like, even it its components originate from a number of different periods and sites. The windowless apartments got their light solely through the doors. The two colossal figures at the entry - called in Assyrian schedulamassu - are human headed, winged lions with horned crowns as a symbol of divinity.
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Arms-bearer of Tiglath-pileser III. Assyrian, about 728 BC. From Nimrud, central Palace. British Museum. London.
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Relief carving on the stairway to the Royal Audience Hall of Darius I (548-486 BC) king of Persia. Subjects bringing tribute and gifts. Persepolis.
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Village parish church Parham, Suffolk, England, UK ship carved graffiti in stone 14th -15th century
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Bajorrelieve de Quetzalcóatl.Piramide de la serpiente enplumada(piramide de Quetzalcóatl).Yacimiento de Xochicalco. Estado de Morelos.Mexico.
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Luxor, Egypt, Africa
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Ancient Egypt. Kom El Shugafa, catacomb, Alexandria. 1st cent. BC. 2nd level tomb. Nephthys.
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Portrait-relief of Enannatum I. Artist: Unknown
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Philae, an island in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt. The temple complex was dismantled and moved to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project, before the 1970 completion of the Aswan High Dam. The first temple structure, which was built by native pharaohs of the 30th dynasty, was the one for Hathor. Greco-Roman era. The island temple was built during the Ptolemaic Kingdom. The principal deity of the temple complex was Isis
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King's stele with inscription and a relief depicting King Sennacherib praying in front of the divine symbols. 705-681 BC. Detail. Limestone. From Nineveh. Archaeological Museum. Museum of Ancient Orient. Istanbul. Turkey.
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Cylinder seal ca. 1820-1730 B.C.. Cylinder seal 328767
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Relief, detail view of the Trajan Column, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe
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SPAIN - Val dAran (district) - Catalonia - Lerida. Santuari de Montgarri Naut Aran, Val d'Aran, Vall d'Aran, Lleida
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Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Ramses VI, close-up of mural painting from twentieth dynasty
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Canteras Gebel Silsila (margen oriental).
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Relief depicting The royal lion hunt. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace. Grooms lead horses towards a screened enclosure, within which the royal chariot is being prepared for the hunt. Men struggle to push one horse into position; the other is having its hamess tightened. King Ashurbanipal is already in the chariot
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Figures of the Leper King Terrace in detail, Angkor Thom complex, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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CODIGO DE HAMMURABI - PROCEDENTE DE SUSA - DIORITA - 1780 AC. Location: MUSEO DEL LOUVRE-ESCULTURAS. France. HAMURABI. SHAMASH (DIOS).
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Tomb guards at the rock tomb of Artaxerxes II, Persepolis, Persepolis, Iran, Asia
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Abu Simbel Great Temple interior relief Egypt North Africa
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A stele of a sitting person carved in stone sits
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The Balawat Gates, three sets of gates from Balawat, an ancient Assyrian Empire, with embossed scenes showing scenes of warfare, the presentation of tribute and hunting of Lions and bulls.
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A delegation bring gifts of precious metal and a chariot fit for a king, Persepolis, 500 BC, Cappadocian Sculptures, Cast from Apadana, Persepolis, Iran, British Museum,London, England, UK
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Sargon II reigned 722 705 BC) Assyrian king
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'The Birth of Topiltzin'. Museum: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO, Mexico D. F., CIUDAD DE MEXICO.
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Egypt, Tall al-Amarnah (Amarna, Tell el-Amarna), necropolis, tomb of Panehsi, detail, relief
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Neo-Assyrian cylinder-seal impression. Artist: Unknown
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The campaign against Urkhileni of Hamath, including the capture of Qarqara.. Birch, Samuel (1813-1885). Photographs, Illustrations. 1880 - 1902. General Research Division. Gates , Assyria, Bas-reliefs , Assyria, Shalmaneser III, King of Assyria, active 9th century B.C. , Palaces
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Adad, Storm god & animal attribute, bull. Holds vase gushing with water, symbol of rain. Cylinder seal. 1894-1595 B.C. Babylon.
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Aztec Relief. National Museum of Anthropology. State of Mexico D.F.Mexico.
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Emilia-Romagna Bologna Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico Sale III, IV, V3. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Specific Location: Sale III, IV, V (Egyptian antiquities) Owner: Museo Civico Archeologico Antiquities: III: basalt sculptural fragments; reliefs from the tomb of Horemheb; funerary stele; dynasties XVIII, XIX, XX, Ptolomeic dynasty reliefs, generally in limestone. IV: XVIII, XIX dynasty sculptures in granite, limestone, sarcophagi, statuette in basalt, statuette in wood, statuettes in bronze, statuette faience, mummy mask: V: basalt sculptures of Horus, Sekhmet, limestone stele (Antiq. count: 202); Republican portrait sculpture, Republican cippi with portrait bust, cippus with portraits (single and group), cippi with inscriptions from all periods, architectural fragments, basin with inscription, torso fragment of cuirassed figure of the 1st century AD (Nero) (Antiq. count: 185); disk lamps from the late republic to 6th century, with erotes, animals, erotica, mythological scenes, menorah, p
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Tomb KV9 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings was originally constructed by Pharaoh Ramesses V. He was interred here, but his uncle, Ramesses VI, later reused the tomb as his own. The layout is typical of the 20th dynasty - the Ramesside period 1145 BC
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Asia, Iran, Persepolis aka Takht-e Jamshid or Throne of Jamshid. Bas relief carvings remain one of the highlights of this ruined capital of the Achaemenian Empire started by Darius I.
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Chariots, Assyrian about 728 BC. From Nimrud. This wall-panel, one of a series, shows two disconnected scenes. Door-sill, Assyrian, 9th-8th century BC. From Nimrud. The text gives the name and genealogy of Adad-nirari III (810-783 BC) and was written in doorways of a palace built during his reign.
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Horse blinker carved in relief with a seated sphinx. Culture: Assyrian. Dimensions: 4.13 x 7.32 in. (10.49 x 18.59 cm). Date: ca. 8th century B.C..The craftsmen who carved ivories in the Phoenician style were strongly influenced by Egyptian art. Many of these ivories illustrate Egyptian themes and motifs, but in entirely original compositions. Phoenician-style ivories were used primarily as furniture decoration. Some are solid plaques; others are carved on one or both sides in a delicate openwork technique. Many were originally covered with gold leaf and inlaid with semiprecious stones or colored glass.Elaborate horse trappings, including frontlets and blinkers such as this one, were sometimes crafted from ivory and are represented on Assyrian reliefs. This spade-shaped horse blinker is decorated in low relief with a seated sphinx wearing the Egyptian cobra, or uraeus, and sun disk on its head. Another winged uraeus and sun disk faces the sphinx to its left. Behind the sphinx is a ca
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Achaemenid Empire. Persepolis. Stairs of Tripylon (Triple gate). Relief of a Persian officer of the court. 5th century BC. Iran.
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Decorative panels of moulded terracotta bricks. Achaemenid period. Palace of Darius 1st.
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Egypt, Bas-relief portraying Amenhotep IV (Pharaoh Akhenaten, circa 1360-1342) with his wife Nefertiti (circa 1370-1330 BC) and their children, the Pharaoh gives an earring to Princess Meritaten, his first daughter, eighteenth dynasty, New Kingdom
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Detail of the wooden stele made of ship planks for the 1000th anniversary of the parish, artist Walter Jansen, Odenthal, Bergisches Land, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe
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A photograph taken of the Festival Hall of Thutmose III (Akh-menu) is an ancient shrine in Luxor (Thebes), Egypt. It is located at the heart of the Precinct of Amun-Re, in the Karnak Temple Complex. The Hall is situated at the end of the Middle Kingdom court. It was initially built to celebrate the Jubilee (Heb-Sed) of the 18th dynasty Pharaoh, Thutmose III, and later became used as part of the annual Opet Festival. circa 1425 BC
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Fragment. Egypt. Date: 969 AD-1171. Dimensions: 7.6 × 20.6 cm (3 × 8 1/8 in.). Linen and silk, tapestry weave. Origin: Egypt. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Islamic.
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UK. London, Ivory plaquette representing two figures sitting on throne, found in Nimrud, Iraq
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The conquest of Ararat and reception of tribute from the king of Kirzani.. Birch, Samuel (1813-1885). Photographs, Illustrations. 1880 - 1902. General Research Division. Gates , Assyria, Bas-reliefs , Assyria, Shalmaneser III, King of Assyria, active 9th century B.C. , Palaces
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Cylinder seal ca. 18th-17th century B.C. Babylonian. Cylinder seal. Babylonian. ca. 18th-17th century B.C.. Hematite. Old Babylonian. Mesopotamia
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Sargon I, king of Mesopotamia who reigned c2334-c2279 BC. Founder of the Akkadian Semitic dynasty. Sargon standing before a tree of life. Stone relief. Louvre, Paris.
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in iran the bas relief of an antique warrior
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Site of Abu Simbel, monuments carved in the rock, Nubia, Egypt, engraving from Antiquites de la Nubie, ou Monumens inedits des bords du Nil (Antiquities of Nubia or Unknown monuments on the banks of the Nile), Plate 55, by Francois-Christian Gau, 1822, Paris.
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Canopic jar of princess Sithathoryunet - Duamutef ca. 1887-1813 B.C. Middle Kingdom The four canopic jars of the king's daughter Sithathoryunet all have human-headed lids like most jars dating to the Middle Kingdom. The jars were intended to store the four internal organs removed during mummification, the lungs, liver, intestines, and stomach. The inscriptions on the jars invoke the four funerary goddesses and the Four Sons of Horus who protect these organs. The inscription on this jar invokes Neith and Duamutef, who protect the stomach.. Canopic jar of princess Sithathoryunet - Duamutef. ca. 1887-1813 B.C.. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster), paint. Middle Kingdom. From Egypt, Fayum Entrance Area, Lahun, Tomb of Sithathoryunet (BSA Tomb 8), BSAE excavations 1914. Dynasty 12
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Limestone, painted stela, of the chief of police, Ptahmay. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, circa 1354 BCE. Amarna period, Egypt
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Hieroglyph Carvings In The Surface Of The Ancient Egyptian Obelisk Of Theodosius, Istanbul Turkey
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This 1910 image shows an Assyrian king hunting. The stone relief is in the British Museum in London. Here, the king Ashurbanipal gallops forward, shooting at wild asses. One of the horsemen behind him has spare arrows and the other has a spare mount. Asses are shot or pulled down by dogs. Ashurbanipal ruled in 600s BC. Date of this relief uncovered at North Palace at Nineveh is 645-635 BC.