Ancient Reliefs and Sculptural Art

Historical bas-reliefs and sculptures illustrating mythological themes, dynamic figures, and classical representations from ancient civilizations.

Athens - sculptural fragment, Parthenon frieze; Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, active 1858 - 1860s); 1865; Albumen silver print

Horsemen depicted in part of the Parthenon friezes at the Parthenon/Acropolis museum, Athens

Roma - Villa Albani. Danza Dionisiaca (Scultura antica) , Antiquities, Bas-reliefs, Gods, Dance, Dionysus Greek deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Pediment and frieze from the treasury of the Siphnians. ca. 525 BC. Detail of the north frieze. Scene of the Gigantomachy: Apollo, Artemis and the giants Kantaros, Ephialtes and Hipertes. Archaic Greek art. Relief on marble. GREECE. CENTRAL GREECE. PHOCIS. Delphi. Delphi Museum.

Sarcófago romano con escenas de una cacería de leones. Siglo IV.

PILA DEL REY BADIS CONOCIDA TAMBIEN COMO PILA DE ALMANZOR - DETALLE DEL LEON CAZANDO - SIGLO X - MARMOL. Location: ALHAMBRA-MUSEO-ESCULTURA. GRANADA. SPAIN.

Stela of god Tutu. Limestone. Greek inscription upon the base.The stela shows the gods Tutu and Athena/Neith. Tutu appears as a striding sphinx. His head is rendered in frontal view, wearing the nemes head-dress and tni crown with the Hathor crown, and a cobra in dressed in front, whose body undulates behind the paws of the sphinx. The griffin of Petbe/Nemesis holding an oval with two crossed arrows, as well as a palm branch rendered in incised relief. 117-138 AD. Hadrian era (Roman domination). Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna. Austria.

Athens - sculptural fragment, Parthenon frieze; Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, active 1858 - 1860s); 1865; Albumen silver print

Sarcophagus of mouring women. 4rh century BC. Relief of Persian chariot. Pentelic marble. From Royal Necropolis of Sidon. Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey.

Mithras Slaying the Bull, Mithras Tauroctony, by copy from Lisippo, 3rd Century -4th Century, white marble, bas, relief. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum. Whole artwork. Bas-relief/low relief god Mithras pointed cap Persian pants/trousers personification Sun Moon killing bull scorpion snake dog

Gypsum relief depicting king Ashurnasirpal II on chariot hunting lion, from Nimrud, Calah, Iraq

Iraq/Mesopotamia: Ivory plaque featuring an unidentified Assyrian ruler, Nimrud, c. 9th - 8th Century BCE, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Stele of Andes, depicting man on horseback

Altar of Domitius. At the base is depicting the wedding of Poseidon and Amphitrite. Ca. 150 BC. Detail of the nuptial courtship with a Nereid on a hippocampus bringing a present and winged erotes. Glyptothek Museum. Munich. Germany.

Fragment of a marble relief from a funerary monument ca. 390 B.C. Greek, Attic It has been suggested that this relief once decorated a state funerary monument erected in honor of Athenian soldiers fallen in battle. The scene at the far right end is preserved, with soldiers falling, escaping, or lying dead. In the missing section, horsemen may have filled the entire height of the panel. An indication of a cliff is visible in the empty space above the raised shield.. Fragment of a marble relief from a funerary monument 252980 Greek, Attic, Fragment of a marble relief from a funerary monument, ca. 390 B.C., Marble, Pentelic, H. 22 1/2 in. (57.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Fletcher Fund, 1929 (29.47)

Greek soldiers fighting Amazons. Relief.

Roman funerary altar. Two camilli wal carrying a parasol and basket of fruit. 40-50 CE. Rome. Claudian era. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy,.

GREEK ART. GREECE. Votive relief representing Demeter sitting on a throne and kore standing holding torches. Dated in the first quarter of s.V b.C. Museum of Eleusis. Athens. Greece.

Wall panel depicting huntsmen with hounds in a garden. Assyrian, approx. 645-635 BC. From the North Palace, Nineveh.

Relief sculpture of the Crossing of the Red Sea, Roman artifact, Arles Museum, Arles, Provence, France

Deatil of Trajans Column Rome 2013. Commenmorating Roman Emperor Trajans victory in the Dacian Wars.

Detail from the Nereid Monument, a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in classical period Lycia. Dated 4th Century BC

Parthenon Frieze, Acropolis, Athens, Greece. Parthenon (now Acropolis Museum) created in 438 BC.

Part of a triangular base with a relief of the statue of Dionysos being transported to the sanctuary of another god (Theoxenia). Unknown

Relief of an Assyrian Chariot. Artist: Unknown

Base of a dedication in Marble. Found in the Athenian Agora. Base of a dedication for victories in the mock cavalry battle contest. Three sides of it have reliefs depicting a horseman riding toward a tripod. The inscription on the fourth side supplies the names of the victorious dedicators and also that of the sculptor Bryavis who carved the monument. It will have supported a bronze tripod dedicated by the victors. Middle of the 4th century BC.

Grave stele. Gray Boeotian marble, found in Orchomenos, Boeotia. It represents an elderly man supporting himself on his stick. In his right hand he holds a locust, offering it to his dog. According to the inscription at its bottom, the stele was carved by the Naxian sculptor Alxenor. circa 490 BC

Elamite warriors. Neo-Assyrian Empire, reign of Ashurbanipal (668-627 B.C.). Limestone. Nineveh (Kuyunjik). North Palace. Iraq. Barracco Museum of Antique Sculpture. Rome. Italy.

Soldiers depicted in the Parthenon frieze, a high-relief pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenons naos. It was sculpted between c. 443 and 438 BC, most likely under the direction of Phidias

Colored relief of Mithras in the Terme Museum, National Museum of Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

FRISO DEL PARTENON- JINETE DE LA PROCESION DE LAS PANATENEAS- LA PARTIDA DE LOS CABALLEROS (DET) - SIGLO V AC. Author: PHIDIAS. Location: BRITISH MUSEUM. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Roman sarcophagus from Pozemia, c. 140. Representation of Centauromachya and Gigantomachy. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

Iran, Achaemenid archeological site of Persepolis, Scythians offering a horse, bas-relief on the Apadana Palace

Amphiaraus in a chariot race. Greek hero and king of Argos. Relief from Oropo, Attica. 4th century BC. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Detail from the Parthenon Frieze. Greek marble sculpture, made between 443-438 BC. The full frieze shows a narrative procession of men, women & horses.

'Tomb of Philostratus'. Ancient Greece, Attica, 430-420s BC. Dimensions: 41x40 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Old Kingdom relief. Herdsman and bulls, Saqqara, 5th Dyn. 2420 BC, EGYPT.

Sarcophagus representing the escape from Egypt, front detail

Marble relief known as Domitius Ahenobarbus relief, detail of sheep and pig being led to sacrifice, from Rome, Campo Marzio, Temple of Neptune

PARTE DE SARCOFAGO CON RELIEVE. DEPOSITO: MUSEO DE SANTA CRUZ. TOLEDO, CASTILLA LA MANCHA, ESPAÑA.

Perugia (Umbria - PG), Major Fountain in Piazza IV Novembre, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, tiles. In each compartment there are two tiles. Plowing and sowing. The Saggittario and the month of November

Relief depicting circus races, detail

Battle scene. Assyrian, circa 728 . Wall relief from Nimrud, Central Palace. An enemy horseman is defeated by an armoured cavalryman of the Assyrian army.

Spain. Etruscan art. Urn. Farewell between spouses. Detail. 4th-3rd century AD. Unknown origin, Italy. Archaeological Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Spain.

Limestone base of a tomb-marker, also known as a cippus, from Chiusi. Dated 5th Century BC

Hermes and ram. Ancient Greek relief carving.

OFERENTES - RELIEVE DE UNA PILA ARABE DE MARMOL DEL SIGLO XI. Location: Museo Municipal. Jativa. Valencia. SPAIN.

Bas-relief with a peacock on a stone fragment displayed at Hosios Loukas monastery (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1990), Distomo, Greece, 10th-11th century, detail.

Cult relief of the Gad (Fortune) of Dura, from the Temple of theGadde

Greek Art. Greece. Votive relief representing Demeter sitting on a throne and kore standing holding torches. Dated in the first quarter of s. V BC Museum of Eleusis. Athens, Greece.

return from the lion hunt. Panel from the North Palace at Nineveh, Iraq. Assyrian 645-636 BC

England, Dorset, Dorchester, Dorset Museum, Military Tombstone depicting Man on a Horse from Whitcombe 2nd century

Relief showing Lion hunt on horseback. Assyrian, about 645-635 BC From Nineveh, North Palace, Iraq. King Ashurbanipal drives his spear into one lion's mouth

Altar with relief depicting sacrifice of bull (81-96 a.d.), from Temple of Domitian at Ephesus, Turkey

RELIEVE DE GORGONA(HIJA MONSTRUOSA DE FORCIS) - SIGLO VI AC-PERTENECE AL TEMPLO DE ARTEMISA. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. CORFU. GREECE. GORGONA-MITOLOGIA GRIEGA. MEDUSA-MITOLOGIA GRIEGA.

The ancient Sabaean Kingdom established power in the early 1st millennium BC. In the 1st century BC it was conquered by the Himyarites, but after the disintegration of the first Himyarite empire of the Kings of Saba' and Dhu-Raydan, the Middle Sabaean Kingdom reappeared in the early 2nd century. It was finally conquered by the Himyarites in the late 3rd century. Its capital was Ma'rib. The kingdom was located along the strip of desert called Sayhad by medieval Arab geographers, which is now named Ramlat al-Sab`atayn. The Sabaean people were South Arabian people. Each of these had regional kingdoms in ancient Yemen, with the Minaeans in the north along the Red sea, the Sabeans on the south western tip, stretching from the highlands to the sea, the Qatabanians to the east of them and the Hadramites east of them. The Sabaeans, like the other Yemenite kingdoms of the same period, were involved in the extremely lucrative spice trade, especially frankincense and myrrh. They left behind many

Relief detail of the delegation of nations bringing gifts to Darius on the steps of Apadana Palace, Persepolis, Persepolis, Iran, Asia

Akkadian cylinder-seal impression of a bull-man and hero. Artist: Unknown

Transenna relief showing a Stag andUnicorn. Artist: Unknown

Sacrifice Frieze to Mars, Temple of Neptune. Rome. 100 BC. Republican era. Roman relief.

Relief of Hoplite stele

Roman terracotta Campana plaque showing Theseus lifting a huge rock. Artist: Unknown

Frieze from a wall at Palace in Persepolis, a Royal Achaemenid city in the Persian Empire. The palace was built between 6th Century BC-5th Century BC

The Roman cult of Mithras. Tauroctony. Mithras killing the bull. Marble. Roman statue. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Roman altar, from the imperial period, in marble, with a relief that represents the scene of Cleobis and Biton pulling the chariot of their mother Cydipe. Rome. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

FRISO DEL PARTENON - JINETES DE LA PROCESION DE LAS PANATENEAS - SIGLO V AC. Author: PHIDIAS. Location: BRITISH MUSEUM. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Pentelic marble west frieze of Parthenon, bas-relief depicting horsemen during Panathenaic procession

ESFINGE DE EL SALOBRAL (S.V.A.C.). IBERICO.(DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Nineveh (Akkadian: Ninua) is an ancient Mesopotamian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was the largest city in the world for some fifty years until, after a bitter period of civil war in Assyria itself, it was sacked by an unusual coalition of former subject peoples, the Babylonians, Medes, Persians, Chaldeans, Scythians and Cimmerians in 612 BCE. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq. In early 2015 the jihadist group ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) announced their intention to destroy the walls of Nineveh if the Iraqis try to liberate the city, they also threatened to destroy artifacts. On February 26 they destroyed several items and statues in the Mosul Museum, and are believed to have plundered others to sell overseas. The items were mostly from the Assyrian exhibit, which ISIL declared blasphemous and idolatrous.

Sarcophagus of Meleagros, marble burial monument with griffins, from the east necropolis of Delphi, Greece. Hellenistic civilization, 2nd century AD.

Ancient Egyptian, Wall relief in painted limestone. It was part of the burial chamber of a tomb. Ptolemaic Period (304-30 B.Sc.)

Gundestrup Cauldron, showing Celtic God Taranis with Wheel, Danish, c100 BC. Artist: Unknown

PEGASO DEL SARCOFAGO DE LOS DIFUNTOS-ROMANO-DETLATERAL. Location: ALCAZAR. CORDOBA. SPAIN.

Stucco relief panel 2nd half of 1st century A.D. Roman The panther, an animal often associated with Dionysos, leaps in the air with a garland wrapped around him.. Stucco relief panel. Roman. 2nd half of 1st century A.D.. Stucco. Early Imperial. Miscellaneous-Stucco

Early Christian Art. Italy. Roman tombstone depicting the Good Shepherd. Baths of Diocletian, part of the National Roman Museum Rome. Italy.

The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, EMC, Cairo, Egypt

Base of a dedication. The relief depicts a scene from the apobates race. In the apobates race, the fully armed athlete jumped to the ground and then had to remount on the fast-moving chariot. Late 4th-Early 3rd century BC. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece.

Cylinder seal ca. 2700-2600 B.C.. Cylinder seal 325553

Lazio Frosinone Boville Ernica S. Pietro Ispano4. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Palaeochristian sarcophagus from 4th century, with relief of Nativity and Adoration of the Magi. Mosaic by Giotto. Post-medieval: Architecture, sculpture, frescoes. Structure of romanesque origin, but renovated in the 16th-17th centuries. Statues in niches of S. Peter and S. Paul, by Andrea Bregno. Marble relief of the Holy Family in the manner of Bregno (end 15th century). Frescoes from the end of the 16th century. General Notes: There were two sets of prints now integrated into a single sequence. 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, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. I

Roman Art. Sarcphagus Chest with the Phaeton Myth. The fall of Phaeton. Found in Ostia. Late 2nd cent. AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Fragment sarcophagus. Cover. Marble. Marine motifs. Marine bull. Catalonia possibly comes from. 2nd century AD. Episcopal Museum. Vic. Catalonia. Spain.

Sarcofago con la Caduta di Fetonte e giochi circensi, Roman Sarcophagus with the fall of Phaeton and circus games, detail, 2nd century A.D. , Uffizi Gallery, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Roman relief of gladiators, 3rd century. Artist: Unknown

Mentuemhat as Priest with Staff and Scepter, c. 667-647 BC. Egypt, Thebes, Late Period, Late Dynasty 25 to Early Dynasty 26. Limestone; overall: 85.2 x 46 cm (33 9/16 x 18 1/8 in.).

Léopold Morice (1846-1920). "August 4, 1789, abandonment of privileges". Plaster on wooden soul. 1879. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 144755-20

The Bassae Frieze comprises a series of relief marble sculptures from the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae, Greece. It was discovered in 1811 by Carl Haller and Charles Cockerell. From the style of the frieze it belongs to the High Classical period, probably carved around 400 BC.

Alexander Sarcophagus, showing Alexander the Great in battle, 4th century. Artist: Unknown

Campania Napoli Nola Seminario. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 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, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

The Farnese Bull. Roman copy (3rd century AD) of a Hellenistic sculpture. Myth of Dirce. Base. Relief. Hunting scene. From baths of Caracalla, Rome. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

Roman sarcophagus with boar hunting scenes, from Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Campania, Italy. Roman civilization. Detail of the left part.

Elephant relief, Jagat Shiromani Hinu Temple, Amber, Amber, Rajasthan, India, Asia

Italy, Apulia, Metope representing a horseman overcoming the enemy or Alexander fighting, relief in local soft rock, fragment

Lintel from the temple at Prasat Koki, Campodia. Style of Kulen (800-850) AD sandstone sculpture

The replica of an old gravestone from Roman times stands against a dark background. A wagon pulled by oxen can be seen on the gravestone. A man is driving the cart. The replica of an old gravestone from Roman times stands against a dark background. A wagon pulled by oxen can be seen on the gravestone. A man is driving the cart. Copyright: xZoonar.com/UlrikexLeonex 22132960

Theseus finds the weapons of his father in the presence of Etra Theseus finds the weapons of his father in the presence of Etra, 1st century BC, clay with polychrome remains, Italy, Campana collection Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 23018625

Capital with intertwining animals. Culture: French. Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/2 x 8 3/8 x 8 3/8in. (21.6 x 21.3 x 21.3cm). Date: early 12th century. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Prehistory, Malta, Neolithic. Detail of a zoomorphic relief depicting a procession of animals. From Tarxien megalithic temple.

Victoria and Albert museum, London, U.K. Electrotype copy of the bronze doors of Hildesheim cathedral, Germany (detail). Adam and Eve expelled from Paradise

Bronze Door with Old Testament Scenes, East Door, Detail View, Porta del Paradiso, Paradise Door, 1426-52, Sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti, Baptistery, Battistero, Duomo Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

Sarcophagus Fragment; Rome, Lazio, Italy; 170 - 180; Grayish-white, close-gained marble; 38 × 62 cm (14 15,16 × 24 7,16 in.)

Desiderio da Settignano, Saint Jerome in the Desert, Italian, c. 1429 - 1464, c. 1461, marble

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