Ancient Rock Art and Reliefs

A collection of ancient rock art and relief carvings featuring diverse styles from different cultures, including stencils, phallic motifs, and royal titles, depicted on stone.

Ampurias. Southern wall. Built in 1st century b. C. Phallus. Relief. Catalonia. Spain.

YACIMIENTO DE LA ATALAYA II. VISTAS DEL ABRIGO Y PINTURAS RUPESTRES. PROYECTO SIGAREP II.

Ampurias. Southern wall. Built in 1st century b. C. Phallus. Relief. Catalonia. Spain.

Relief fragment with royal titles ca. 1353-1336 B.C. New Kingdom, Amarna Period. Relief fragment with royal titles. ca. 1353-1336 B.C.. Limestone, paint (mostly modern). New Kingdom, Amarna Period. From Egypt; Probably originally from Amarna (Akhetaten); Probably from Middle Egypt, Hermopolis (Ashmunein; Khemenu). Dynasty 18

Three middle fingers closed hand stencil. Date/Period: -7000. Painting. Author: UNKNOWN.

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Assergi, S. Maria Assunta, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

A relief carving of At the Temple of the Jaguar in the Chichen Itza Archaeological Zone (UNESCO World Heritage Site) on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

The White Obelisk of Ashurnasirpal I, found at the ancient Assyrian settlement of Nineveh, northern Iraq. Excavated by the British archaeologist Hormuzd Rassam in 1853 The White Obelisk is made from white limestone with engraved decoration in relief on all sides, showing campaigns and recreational activities. 1050 BC

La Casa Grande, "the big house" 16th century, Ortigosa de Cameros, La Rioja, Spain.

Monumento funerario de Cal Posastre, Sant Martí Sarroca, siglo II a.C. Museu del Castell.

ABRIGO DE LOS ALCORES (67/1R): DETALLE PINTURAS PARTE SUPERIOR DEL PANEL.

Italy, Campania, Pompeii. Ceiling details of the Stabian Baths.

Kragstein an der Wand corbel on the wall, Basilica of San Martino de Mondonedo, Montonedo, Lugo, Galicia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22762119

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, Ortucchio, S. Orante, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

First Pylon at the Temple of Rameses II at Medinet Habu, Egypt. The Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu was an important New Kingdom period temple structure in the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt. The temple has inscribed reliefs depicting the advent and defeat of the Sea Peoples during the reign of Ramesses III. Initial excavation of the temple took place sporadically between 1859 and 1899

Ancient petroglyphs of Tsalka in Georgia

Relief fragment with sandalled feet ca. 1353-1336 B.C. New Kingdom, Amarna Period. Relief fragment with sandalled feet. ca. 1353-1336 B.C.. Limestone, paint. New Kingdom, Amarna Period. From Egypt; Probably originally from Amarna (Akhetaten); Probably from Middle Egypt, Hermopolis (Ashmunein; Khemenu). Dynasty 18

Menelaus and Odysseus depicted on the Parthenon Friezes, Athens. 439 - 433 BC

The God Hermes defeating a giant, depicted in part of the Parthenon friezes at the Parthenon/Acropolis museum, Athens

Relief details from the temple courtyard in the Roman city of Bath, England. 3rd century AD. Now in ruin, the courtyard walls were adorned with decorative reliefs like a Lion head cornice, and allusions and tributes to Minerva, the patron Goddess. This image shows some of what remains.

Hand, detail from the figure of a saint, stucco decoration in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Lomello, Lombardy. Italy, 11th century.

Dei El Bahari.

CUEVA DEL DERRUMBE. PINTURAS.

DETALLE DE UNO DE LOS RACIMOS DE VID QUE DECORAN LA CUBIERTA DE LA ALCOBA IZQUIERDA - FRESCOS OMEYAS DEL CASTILLO DE QUSEIR AMRA - SIGLO VIII. Location: CASTILLO. QUSEIR AMRA.

Aboriginal rock art: stencilled hands reaching out from the past as if seeking reconciliation and recognition of the original inhabitants of Australia from the roof of a cave at the western end of the Buckland Tableland, Great Dividing Range, Central Queensland Highlands, Australia

Italy - Sicily Region - Monte Pellegrino Oriented Nature Reserve - Niscemi grotto. Rock engraving depicting horses and oxes.

Pilaster seat with candelabrum decor. Limestone. End of the High Empire (1st century-Vers 250) and beginning of the Lower Empire (around 250-early from the 5th century) Paris, Carnavalet museum. MAIN CANDELABRE SAP WITH TO RIGHTS OF ACANTHE SHEETS OUR LONGE SHEETS. On the right side bird among branches. Roman antiquity, seat, limestone, calear, low-empire debut, decor, Roman empire, high-empire end, stone, pilaster, ancient

Mexico.Chiapas.Z.A. de Palenque.Cultura Maya.El Palacio.Relieve representando al rey Pakal.

Runestone. 11th century. Found on a wall of the South Gate of the city of Stockholm. Detail. Medieval Museum. Stockholm. Sweden.

Petroglyphs of Vigirima, also known as Tronconeros Painted Stone, Piedra Pintada archaeological site, San Esteban National park, Carabobo state, Vene...

camune engravings at nardo village: warrior, capo di ponte, italy

NORWAY. Begby. Boats (1000 BC). Bronze Age. Petroglyph.

Mexico, Tecate, Rancho La Puerta, Close-up of old mexican bas relief

Siem Reap, Angkor, Temple Bayon, wonderful wall reliefs tell the story

RELIEVE - FOTO AÑOS 80. Location: EXTERIOR. MENFIS. EGYPT.

A photograph taken of the Abu Simbel Temple, in Nubia, Southern Egypt, near the border with Sudan. The complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The temple dates to the 13th century BC, during the 19th dynasty reign of the Pharaoh Ramesses II. It is a monument to the king and commemorates his victory at the Battle of Kadesh. The complex was relocated in its entirety in 1968 under the supervision of a Polish archaeologist, Kazimierz Michalowski, on an artificial hill made from a domed structure, high above the Aswan High Dam reservoir.

Young girl with gift. Limestone. Iberian culture. From Osuna, Andalusia, Spain. 3rd century BC.Young girl with gift. Limestone. Iberian culture. From Osuna, Andalusia, Spain. 3rd century BC.

Pre-Inca petroglyphs in Peru, South America

Castillo de Alcañiz, siglo XIV, pintura mural gótica (pinturas del interior antes de la restauración). Teruel, España.

Traces of the bark beetle

Estela de arenisca, I a.C., oppidum de Berreaga, Arkeologi Museoa, museo aqueologico, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Pais Vasco, Spain, Europe

JARRON DE LAS GACELAS-DETALLE DE GACELA-CERAMICA NAZARI - SIGLO XIV/XV. Location: ALHAMBRA-MUSEO-CERAMICA. GRANADA. SPAIN.

Petroglyph park sandstone, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.

Titchfield Abbey floor tiles. Elizabethan ENGLAND.

PINTURA MURAL DEL INTERIOR DEL CASTILLO DE QUSEIR AMRA - SIGLO VIII - DINASTIA OMEYA. Location: CASTILLO. QUSEIR AMRA.

Sweden, Bohuslan, Tanumshede, Bronze Age carving detail of the Tanum area showing man with big sexual organ

Detail of Mosaic floor, Ruins of the Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla), Thermae Antoninianae , one of the most important baths of Rome at the time of the Roman Empire, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe, UNESCO World Heritage.

A photograph taken within Tomb KV8, located in the Valley of the Kings, used for the burial of Pharaoh Merenptah of Ancient Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty. Merneptah or Merenptah (reigned July or August 1213 BC - May 2, 1203 BC) was the fourth ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

ESCENA SITUADA ENCIMA DE LA PUERTA DE ENTRADA A LA SALA DE BAÑOS DESDE EL GRAN SALON EN EL CASTILLO DE QUSEIR AMRA - FRESCOS OMEYAS - SIGLO VIII. Location: CASTILLO. QUSEIR AMRA.

pflanzliches Relief pflanzliches Relief Copyright: xZoonar.com/TOLOxBALAGUERx 22590156

Medieval graffiti on the Palma Lonja building (La Llotja), 15th century, Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Old inscriptions at the ancient Maya archaeological site of Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico, North America

Dedication to Jupiter and the Genius of Emperor Septimius Severus by the division of the 22nd Legion, Kriemhildenstuhl, Roman quarry, Bad Duerkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Roman civilization, 3rd century AD.

Italy, Campania, Pompei, fresco with wild beasts

ABRIGO DE LOS HORCAJOS (168/1R): PINTADA DE CRUZ Y PENTAGONO DEBAJO DE LA CRUZ DE LA DERECHA.

Archaeological area: mosaics from the domus. luni. Italy

SIN TITULO - PINTURA MATERICA - 1966. Author: CESAR MANRIQUE CABRERA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Details of a carving on a stone, Ephesus, Turkey

Etruscan rock drawing with labyrinth, warrior and scoop, iron age, Naquane, Val Camonica, UNESCO World Heritage Site Val Camonica, Lombardy, Italy, Europe

Names of prisoners carved into the walls of the Tower of London. Dated 16th Century

Cambodia, Angkor, Angkor Thom, Bayon. Bas-relief stone carved walls, circa 800-1200 AD, Hindu and Buddhist.

Italy, Lombardy, Valcamonica, Foppi di Nadro, 1000BC rock carvings depicting battles.

CAVE OF VENTALAPERRA (511). PANEL V: UNKNOWN ANIMAL. ENGRAVING. EAST WALL. RIGHT OF THE MAIN ROOM. VIZCAYA, BASQUE COUNTRY, SPAIN.

Warrior stela. Slate. Late Bronze Age. Solana de Cabanas, Caceres, Extremadura, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain. Detail.

Clay, Hanoi district, Ceramics with foot powered wheel, Vietnam, Asia

Ottoman Turkish art with geometric patterns in view

Temple of Ramses III. Reliefs depicting winged beetles with wings outstretched as a symbol of protection. New Kingdom. (1550-1069 b.C). Twentieth dynasty. Thebes. Medinet-Habou. Egypt.

Hearthstone, from Antwerp Belgium, without frame, with C-volutes, fireplace hearth part ceramic bricks, baked Hearth stone of the Antwerp type without displaying round medallion with C-shaped tendrils around it heating history

Base mid-12th century Catalan. Base. Catalan. mid-12th century. Marble. Made in present-day France. Sculpture-Architectural-Stone

Europe, Greece, Cyclades, Delos. Mosaic floor of the House with the Trident.

Puerta medieval de madera tallada con motivos geométricos, florales y la escena de la Anunciación a la Virgen María.

Italy, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Aquileia, mosaic collection in the Baptistry.

ESTACION DE ARTE RUPESTRE DE DOMINGO GARCIA, ROCA C. PROYECTO SIGAREP II.

Tombstone. Bas-relief depicting a knight wearing habit and carrying a mace. Inscriptions in Gothic characters in the border. Slate. Second half of the 14th century. From the Church of San Román, Toledo, Spain. Museum of Visigoth Councils and Culture. Toledo, Castile-La Mancha, Spain.

The 'Harvester's Vase' from Crete, 16th century. Artist: Unknown

five-armed swastika in relief 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 Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21880647

Fish relief on the temple wall, Jain temple on Vindhyagiri Hill at Shravanabelagola, Karnataka, South India, India, South Asia, AsiaAsiaAsia, Asia

Women sitting down & talking. Minoan. Greece.

MALTA, TARXIEN TEMPLES, MEGALITHIC TEMPLE OF TARXIEN, 2500 B.C., STONE CARVINGS, ANIMALS

CUEVA PINTADA DE GALDAR (197). DETALLE GRABADOS GALDAR, GRAN CANARIA, ESPAÑA.

Asia, Cambodia, Siem Reap, Angkor Wat, wall carvings.

Turkey, Corum, Hattusas, Ancient Hittite Capital. Detail Of The Goddess In The Great Temple Of The Weather Gods.

Stone with ancient carving in the Great Temple of Yeha, Ethiopia

ARA EGIPCIA. Location: EGYPTIAN MUSEUM. KAIRO. EGYPT.

View of ancient mosaic floors, faded and cracked, whispering tales of bygone eras in the heart of Garni, Kotayk Province, Armenia.

CUEVA DE AMBROSIO, PINTURAS RUPESTRES. PANEL CON CABEZA DE CABALLO O EQUIDO. ALMERIA, ANDALUCIA, ESPAÑA.

CUEVA DE VENTALAPERRA (511). PANEL II: CONJUNTO DE LINEAS GRABADAS. PARED ESTE. A LA DERECHA DE LA SALA PRINCIPAL. VIZCAYA, PAIS VASCO, ESPAÑA.

TEMPLO RAMSES IV - RELIEVE DE UNA DIOSA - FOTO AÑOS 80. Location: VALLE DE LOS REYES. Thebes. EGYPT.

petroglyphs, Kamuihei, Nuku Hiva, Marquesas, French Polynesia

Fish and crustaceans mosaic, pool in House of Orpheus, Roman city of Volubilis (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1997), Morocco. Roman Civilisation.

Prehistoric engraving in stone, Fuente de la Zarza, spring near Llanos Negro, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain

Relief fragment showing a pile of offerings and part of an offering list. Dimensions: H. 46.4 × W. 80.2 cm (18 1/4 × 31 9/16 in.). Dynasty: Dynasty 11. Reign: late reign of Mentuhotep II or later. Date: ca. 2010-2000 B.C. or ca. 2000-1981 B.C..Originally from the innermost room of Dagi's tomb chapel, this block depicts some of the offerings piled up in front of a large figure of Dagi at his funerary meal: here they consist of joints of meat, a bunch of grapes, figs, a large goose, and the head of an ox. Above the foodstuffs is part of the funerary "menu," a gridded table that lists the various food, drink, and ritual materials necessary for Dagi's mortuary cult. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Panel of the points horses (Paintings Room, Pech-Merle Cave). Detail of a hand in negative in black color accompanied by points of the same color. Upper Paleolithic, Magdalenian Culture. Midi-Pyrenees, France.

Feathered serpent relief at El Castillo (the castle"), also known as the Temple of Kukulcan, Mesoamerican step-pyramid, Chichen Itza archaeological site in the Mexican state of Yucatan. Built by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization sometime between the 9th and 12th centuries CE, El Castillo served as a temple to the god Kukulcan, the Yucatec Maya Feathered Serpent deity.

capital with a running deer, 6th century, steps, Museum of the Councils and Visigoth Culture, Church of San Román,Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

India, Maharashtra, Ajanta, Ajanta Caves. Caves excavated from 200 B.C. to 650 A.D. Detail of ornate stone wall. UNESCO.

ABRIGO DE LOS HORCAJOS.SEGUNDO GRAFITO CON CRUZ.

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

Campania Caserta Capua Museo Campano, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

The Arameans were an ancient Northwest Semitic Aramaic-speaking tribal confederation who emerged from the region known as Aram (in present-day Syria), in the Late Bronze Age (11th to 8th centuries BC). Basalt relief. Warrior with spear. c. 8th century BC. National Museum of Aleppo. Syrian Arab Republic.

Ancient petroglyphs, which are engraved etchings made by Fremont and Ancestral Puebloan people, which lived here between 600-1300 A.D, Capitol Reef National Park, Utah, United States.

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