Ancient Reliefs and Bas-Reliefs

Photographs of ancient relief sculptures from various cultures, depicting significant historical events and figures, emphasizing intricate details.

Kloster San Cugat del Vallés Kreuzgang monastery of San Cugat del Vallés cloister, Samson and the lion capital, San Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 22282921

ARTE GRIEGO. EPOCA ARCAICA. GRECIA. FRONTON conocido como de la HIDRA, que formaba parte de un pequeño templo o tesoro situado en la Acropólis, hoy desaparecido. El carro es conducido por LOLAOS, amigo de Heracles. Realizado en toba, data del año 580 a. C. aproximadamente. Detalle. Museo de la Acrópolis. ATENAS.

blur in iran near persepolis the old ruins historical destination monuments and mountain

SILLAR DE ESQUINA. RELIEVE HOMBRE CON CAPA. IBERICO. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Bas-relief depicting The Churning of the Ocean of Milk, Angkor Wat, Cambodia, Asia

Capital with the figure of a mermaid in the cloister of the Monastery of San Pedro de Galligans, XII Century, Gerona, Catalonia, Spain.

PIEDRA CON DECORACION VEGETAL DE LA SINAGOGA BLANCA - RESTOS DEL SIGLO III Y IV. Location: SINAGOGA. CAFARNAUM. ISRAEL.

Kloster San Cugat del Vallés Kreuzgang monastery of San Cugat del Vallés cloister, Samson and the lion capital, San Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 22282921

LIBYA, NEAR TRIPOLI, LEPTIS MAGNA, SEVERAN FORUM, MEDUSA HEADS

Double Capital 11th-13th century Italian or French. Double Capital 466390

Syria, Palmyra. Temple of Bel. Relief of an architrave with depiction of citizens of Palmyra in procession making offerings to the god Bel. Picture taken before the Syrian civil war.

Plaszow Labour and Concentration Camp Memorial, Krakow, Malopolska, Lesser Poland, Poland, Europe

The vine trapping a man, relief on the portico of the cathedral of Sessa Aurunca, Campania, Italy, 13th century.

Sumerian Libation Vase Hero Gilgamesh, Bulls and Birds from Warka, Uruk, South Iraq, c2000 BC Artist: Unknown.

Estela de Akenatón a. Fue la primera estela descubierta. Aparece la famlia real adorando a Atón.

Ajanta caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Maharashtra, India. Apsara sculpture in Cave n°26

Escultura griega de Priapo. Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya.

The decoration of Assyrian Palaces. Assyrian Kings competed to make each new palace finer than the last. Carved reliefs decorated the interior walls, while colossal man-headed lions or bulls stood as guardians of gateways.

Egypt. Temple of Luxor. Mandrills relief into the base of the Obelisk of Ramesses II. New Kingdom. Thebes.

Egyptian art. Great Temple of Ramses II. Minor sculptures that decorate the base of the main facade of the temple. Falcon. 19th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Abu Simbel. Egypt.

antigua portada del Hospital de San Juan de Acre en el cementerio municipal, estilo románico, Navarrete, La Rioja, Spain.

Italy. Pompeii. Building of Eumachia (VII,9,1). It was erected during the Tiberian period (14-37 AD), next to the public forum. Delicate marble relief of the portal, decorated with garlands of acanthus leaves with birds, reptiles and insects. Campania.

In September 2018, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities, announced the discovery of an 18th dynasty tomb, in Draa Abul-Naga, a burial site for noblemen on the left bank of the Nile, near the Valley of the Kings. the tomb contains mummies believed to be a goldsmith called Amenemhat, who lived sometime between 1550 B.C. to 1292 B.C. The burial chamber has a niche at one end, which holds a statue of Amenemhat who sits on a chair next to his wife, Amenhotep. The Eighteenth Dynasty dates back to the 13th century BC, a period noted for some of the most well known Pharaohs, including Tutankhamen and Ramses II. The chamber has two burial shafts. In one, archaeologists found sarcophagi and remains dating from the later 21st and 22nd Dynasties. Those included the remains of a woman and her two grown children. She showed signs of bacterial bone disease and cavities. The other shaft contains funerary masks and statues depicting the goldsmith's family. The tomb hoses deteriorated mummies with their skul

Romanesque capital in the porticoed gallery, church of Santa Cristina, Romanesque 12th century, Barca, Soria, autonomous community of Castilla y León, Spain, Europe.

Carved stone detail on a sarcophagus exhibit, Ephesus, Turkey

Statue at the historical site of Ephesus Turkey

Funerary altar, calcerows. Caesarea. Roman period, late 1st-2nd century BC. On the front of the altar is the image of an eagle perched within aniche. The eagle is crowned with a wreath by NIke, the goddes of victory. Deceased: Julius Magnus, Centurion. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Beit Hatfutsot, museum of the Jewish people, Tel Aviv, Israel

Herakles statue near the Commagene King Antiochus I tomb on the top of Mount Nemrut, Adiyaman province, Turkey, Asia

Flachrelief aus Stein, Bayon Tempel, Kambodscha Darstellung von Szenen einer Militärparade der Armee von Jayavarman VII, die Truppenkommandeure reiten auf Elefanten, Flachrelief aus Stein, Äussere Gallerie Ostseite, Bayon Tempel, Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, Kambodscha / Stone carving depicting scenes from a military procession of the army of Jayavarman VII, the commanders of the troops are mounted on elephants, Bas-relief of the outer gallery East side, Bayon temple, Angkor Thom, Siem Reap, Cambodia Copyright: xZoonar.com/STDMx 3315678

Libya, Az Zawiyah District, Sabratha, Seaward Bath, Statue, dating back to 2nd Century

Iran, Fars Province, Persepolis, sculpture of head of bull at Throne Hall

Monastery of San Juan de la Pena. Relief of a capital depicting The Visitation. Romanesque Cloister. Aragon. Spain.

Garland sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman period, 3rd century CE. Decorated with floral garlands and deities. Detail. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Turkey, Anatolia, Mesopotamia. Sanliurfa (aka Urfa). Gobekli Tepe (aka Gobeklitepe) very important Neolithic dig site of hunter-gathers from 9th millennium BC (11,000 years ago). Carved stone relief, fox.

Bas reliefs of servants, Winter Palace of Darius (Tashara); Persepolis, Iran

Column base of double sphinx from the entrance of a palace in Basalt, Egypt, 8th century BC

Temple Deir The Bahary. It means "The northern convent" and is a complex of funerary temples and tombs that is located on the west bank of the Nile River, facing the ancient city of Thebes, the current Luxor, in Egypt.

Amazon defeated by a Greek soldier, depicted in part of the Parthenon friezes at the Parthenon/Acropolis museum, Athens

Ancient inscribed sarcophagus adorned with garlands on shoreline of Caesarea, Israel.

Stone sculpture in the Castle of Saint Floret, Puy de Dome, Auvergne Rhone Alpes, France, Europe

Stone Tomb Guardian statue; 17th century Ming or Qing Dynasty; China.

Campaigning in southern Iraq. Decapitated heads. Assyrian, 640-620 BC. Nineveh, South-West Palace. Iraq. British Museum. London.

Myra, amphitheatre with mask frieze of the Roman stage building, Lycia, Turkey, Asia

Column base, 19th century. Unknown provenance. Carmo Archaeological Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

Column with a snake relief, ancient city of Knidos, Knidos, near Datca, Datca Peninsula, Mugla Province, Aegean, Turkey, Asia

mosaic the fragment of tiled wall Copyright: xZoonar.com/RuslanxNassyrovx 1960953

ARTE ROMANO. ALEMANIA. Barca con romanos transportando vino. Pertenece a la tumba de un comerciante de vinos fechada en el 220 d. C. Hallada en Neumagen Weinschiff. Museo Regional Renano (Rheinisches Landesmuseum). Tréveris (Trier). Alemania.

A photograph taken within a tomb in the Draa Abul-Naga burial site for noblemen on the left bank of the Nile, near the Valley of the Kings. The tomb contains mummies believed to be a goldsmith called Amenemhat, who lived sometime between 1550 BC to 1292 BC

Mask in Myra Ruins,Turkey

Close-up of carvings on a rock, Phimai Historical Park, Phimai, Thailand

Pharaoh Ramses II (1290-1224 BC). New Kingdom. Temple of Hathor or Small Temple. Abu Simbel. Egypt.

Rock of St Zeno (seat), by Unknown, 1st Century, brick. Italy, Veneto, Verona, Oratory of the San Zeno Church. Whole artwork. Rock of San Zeno sculpture couple man woman rock superimposed decoration arch.

relief fragment of a battle scene, calcareous stone, reign of Mentuhotep II, Macedonian dynasty, 2055-2004 BC, temple of Mentuhotep II, Deir el-Bahari, Thebes, Egypt, collection of the British Museum.

PORTADA - CAPITELES ROMANICOS (DETALLE). Location: Monasterio de Santa María la Real. Fitero. NAVARRA. SPAIN.

John Milton (1608-1674). English poet and historian. Milton selling the manuscript of his poem "Paradise Lost" to a publisher. Milton sold the publication rights for "Paradise Lost" to publisher Samuel Simmons (1640-1687) on April 27, 1667. Engraving after a painting by Mose` Bianchi di Lodi (1836-1892). La Ilustracion Espan~ola y Americana, 1881.

Ionic column capital with traces of painted decoration. 5th century BC. Museum of the Ancient Agora. Athens, Greece.

Capiteles del claustro de la Abadía de San Miguel de Cuixá, abadía benedictina fundada en el siglo IX en la localidad de Codalet, Francia.

Sculptures, Passion Facade, La Sagrada Familia, Basilica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Familia, Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, Antoni Gaudi, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Eixample, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe, PublicGround, Europe

LIBYA, NEAR TRIPOLI, SABRATHA, SEAWARD BATH, 2ND CENTURY AD, STATUE

relief from the temple at Malinalco, in Mexico. The Aztecs conquered the area in the 1470s, and established here a sanctuary for their military elite, the Eagle and Jaguar warriors. The complex was built on the Cerro de los Idolos (Hill of the Idols), over an older ceremonial site.

Detail from the monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto: the sculptures representing "Struggle'' Warsaw, Poland

A picture of the wall paintings of the Terrace Houses at the Ephesus Ancient City

Tympano: head of monster or devil. Pierre, 1150-1200. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 78020-9 Archeology Medievale, Devil, Iieme Millennaire, Middle Ages, Pierre, Monster Tete, Tympan

Originals of the Tropaeum Traiani, Adamclisi, Romania, Europe

Grave of the Norman Duke Rollo, medieval recumbent figure, Rouen Cathedral, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Upper Normandy, France, Europe

Sculptural ruin.

Lazio Viterbo Ronciglione S. Eusebio2. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, painting, architectural sculpture, inscription fragments. This church was built by monks fleeing Palestine in the 7th to 8th centuries. The walls are covered with frescoes, some (The Tree of Jesse, The Last Supper, and Christ with Four Saints) date from the 12th century, others (The Madonna enthroned with S. Stephen, and S. Eusebio) date from the 13th century. Post-medieval: Architecture, painting. The portal of the church dates from the 15th century, and in the apse is a fresco of the Madonna and Child from the 15th century as well. Antiquities: Sculpture. Roman sarcophagus placed next to the main portal outside the church. 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, in

The Plaster Casts in the Stairway Hall South Wall In the 19th, and early 20th centuries, the world's most important collection of Greek and Roman sculptures been shown since 1856 throughout the main floor and in the stairwell of the New Museum.

Stone Carving Figures

Colosos de Amenhoteph III (Amenofis III) flanquean erguidos sobre sus plataformas, la entrada norte del templo del faraón también conocido como Amenhoteph III, en la ribera oeste del río Nilo a su paso por Luxor.

scene of the conquest of Majorca,Memorial Cross landing in Gran Via de la Creu. Santa Ponça, It was inaugurated in 1929, on the occasion of the commemoration of the seventh anniversary of the conquest, Calvia, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Mayas. Uxmal city. Classical period. Great Pyramid. Chaac masks. Detail. Yucatan. Mexico.

Colosos de Amenhoteph III (Amenofis III) flanquean erguidos sobre sus plataformas, la entrada norte del templo del faraón también conocido como Amenhoteph III, en la ribera oeste del río Nilo a su paso por Luxor.

Abandoned sculpture at Tungabhadra River, Hampi, Karnataka, India, Asia

Square of the arenas, 5th arrondissement, Paris. Square of the arenas. Paris (Fifth arr.). Photograph of Charles Lansiaux (1855-1939). Gelato-silveric draw.

Relief depicting egyptian war chariots at the Battle of Kadesh. 13th century B.C. New Kingdom. First Pylon of the Temple of Luxor. Thebes. Egypt.

Etruscan urns in the Hypogeum of the Volumnus family, Perugia, Umbria, Italy, 2nd century BC.

Valencia Santa Catalina church plaza Lope de Vega Arcosolio detail with broken sculpture in Spain

Statue of a woman with a sword and shield on one side and a serpent on the other, erected to commemorate those the Portuguese who died during the first world war Maputo, Mozambique

Sculptural relief of the facade of the monastery of Sant Pau del Camp, 9th-12th century, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Iraq - Hatra (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1985). Statue of Abu Bint Deimun, wife of Santruq I

Grotesque figure on display in the Palais des Papes - Palace of the Popes, Avignon, Vaucluse, France. The Historic Centre of Avignon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Historic bank with elaborate carvings in Scuol, Lower Engadine, Graubuenden or Grisons, Switzerland, Europe

"San Jorge y el dragón" (detail) (Saint George and the dragon), 19th century, Sculptural relief, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Arjuna´s Penance, Mahabalipuram, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia

Egypt, Memphis (aka Menufer). Located between Giza & Saqqara. Stone statue of Ramsis II in outdoor museum.

Egypt, Memphis (aka Menufer). Located between Giza & Saqqara. Ancient stone statue outside museum.

Italy, Rome, Detail of Fountain of the Four Rivers

Egypt Thebes Statue Of Horus

Egyptian Artifacts in the Louvre, Paris, France Egyptian Artifacts in the Louvre, Paris, France Copyright: xZoonar.com/EugenxWaisx 17358315

Indian dancer statue made of marble, 11 century A.D.

Wall frieze depicting Campaign against the town of -alammu. Assyrian, about 700-692 BC From Nineveh, South-West Palace, Room XIV, panels 4-6. Iraq.

Sowing in which the farmer uses a Roman plow drawn by two oxen, sculptural frieze with an agricultural calendar, San Galindo Chapel, Parish Church of San Bartolome, Campisabalos, Guadalajara, Spain, Europe

The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (858-824 BC) Assyrian, about 827 BC. The obelisk was erected in the centre of Nimrud, shortly before Shalmaneser III's death. It records the king's campaigns, showing tribute brought from all directions. The stone itself is a fine-grain black limestone streaked with white.

Ornate capital, chapter house, Cadouin Abbey (Notre-Dame de la Nativite), Le Buisson-de-Cadouin, New Aquitaine, France, 12th-15th century.

Art gallery of the South Pier, San Benedetto del Tronto, Marche, Italy, Europe

Italy. Pisa. Camposanto. Roman sarcophagus. Detail of the theatrical mask.

Relief, western terrace, Mount Nemrut, Nemrut Dagi, Adiyaman province, Southeastern Anatolia Region, Anatolia, Turkey, Asia

Frescoes, 14th century, right aisle of the narthex, Romainmotier Abbey, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland.

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