Ancient Sculptures and Reliefs

A collection of stone carvings and reliefs from various cultures, depicting deities, scenes of life, and historical narratives, showcasing intricate details and diverse styles.

Egypt, Abu Simbel. Nubian Monuments.

Stone stele depicting Lord of the dead, seated skeleton, from Izapa

Relief Panel, The Assyrian Royal Court (Gallery 401), The Metropolitan .Assyrians tending to the tree of life. 883859 b.c.; NeoAssyrian period, reign of Ashurnasirpal II. Excavated at Nimrud

Abruzzo L'Aquila Vittorito S. Michele Arcangelo7. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Fragments of relief sculpture Post-medieval: 15th century architecture and architectural sculpture; frescos; ciborium 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.

Seated Ascetics, AD 300s. India, Kashmir, Harwan, 4th century. Terracotta; overall: 50.8 x 30.6 x 5.2 cm (20 x 12 1/16 x 2 1/16 in.).

Fragment of a stone box (tepetlacalli) 1521 A.D. Aztec

Fragment of a Stela Depicting Fowling in the Marshes. Egyptian, from Sakkara. Date: 2186 BC-2061 BC. Dimensions: 20.3 × 35.5 × 7.5 cm (8 × 14 × 3 in.). Limestone with traces of pigment. Origin: Sakkara. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA. Author: Ancient Egyptian.

Stele of Quinto Carminio Ingenuo, depicting man on horseback

Egypt, Abu Simbel. Nubian Monuments.

Representation of a banker. A banker wearing a toga sits behing his desk counting coins, with two chest at the sides. Funerary monument of the ontiie. A. Fonteius. End of the Republican period. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

Knight from Caio Mario First Legion's stele, with shield, lance and ornamentation, nine phalera and two armilla, relief in bottom right

Stela dedicated to the gog Ptah by Nakhtemmut Stela dedicated to the gog Ptah by Nakhtemmut, limestone, Deir el-Medina, Gregorian Egyptian Museumn Musei Vaticani, State of the Vatican City, Roma, Lazio, Italia Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21377654

Babylonian boundary-stone (kudurru) of the time of King Nebuchadnezzar I of Babylon, c1125-1104 BC. Artist: Unknown

SARCOFAGO. DEPOSITO: MUSEO FREDERIC MARES . BARCELONA, CATALÑA, ESPAÑA.

Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: record of harvest workers ca. 2037 B.C. Neo-Sumerian. Cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: record of harvest workers 323828

Fragment of carved wall portraying princess accompanying parents with son of Akhenaton, from Hermopolis

Rondanini tablet; 27 BC - 14 CE; The period of the Oktawian Augusta (-27-00-00-00-00-00);Homer (fl. Ca 850 A.C.), Homer (fl. Ca 850 A.C.). Odyssey, Digital Museum, Rondanini Giuseppe (1725-1801)

Asia, Iraq. Archars of King Teglath-Pileser III. Assyrian king. 740 BC. Nimrud. Copyright: R. Sheridan/AAA Collection- Avail up to 100MB. Call for Details.

Egypt, Thebes, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Tomb of Ramses II, relief of hieroglyphics illustrating Litany of Ra from 19th dynasty

Etruscan civilization, stela from Bologna with fight between Gaul and Knight

Italy, Apulia, Detail of Daunian stele, engraved hunting scene

detail from the Shrine of Taharqa is a sandstone shrine built by King Taharqa (690-664 BC)

Limestone votive relief with worship and banquet scenes 4th century B.C. Cypriot Golgoi in Cyprus was the site of an important sanctuary to Apollo. This relief, which shows the god seated before an altar holding a lyre and phiale, may have hung on a wall within the temple precinct.. Limestone votive relief with worship and banquet scenes 241892

Cylinder seal and modern impression: confronted king and goddess (), five rows of inscription ca. 1720-1650 B.C. Although engraved stones had been used as early as the seventh millennium B.C. to stamp impressions in clay, the invention in the fourth millennium B.C. of carved cylinders that could be rolled over clay allowed the development of more complex seal designs. These cylinder seals, first used in Mesopotamia, served as a mark of ownership or identification. Seals were either impressed on lumps of clay that were used to close jars, doors, and baskets, or they were rolled onto clay tablets that recorded information about commercial or legal transactions. The seals were often made of precious stones. Protective properties may have been ascribed to both the material itself and the carved designs. Seals are important to the study of ancient Near Eastern art because many examples survive from every period and can, therefore, help to define chronological phases. Often preserving image

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Cylinder seal and modern impression: king holding two lion griffins at bay ca. 6th-5th century B.C. Achaemenid Although engraved stones had been used as early as the seventh millennium B.C. to stamp impressions in clay, the invention in the fourth millennium B.C. of carved cylinders that could be rolled over clay allowed the development of more complex seal designs. These cylinder seals, first used in Mesopotamia, served as a mark of ownership or identification. Seals were either impressed on lumps of clay that were used to close jars, doors, and baskets, or they were rolled onto clay tablets that recorded information about commercial or legal transactions. The seals were often made of precious stones. Protective properties may have been ascribed to both the material itself and the carved designs. Seals are important to the study of ancient Near Eastern art because many examples survive from every period and can, therefore, help to define chronological phases. Often preserving imagery

Chaldean Assyrian relief sculpture slab from the northwest palace of King Ashurnasirpal II of a Genie standing. 881-859 BC. from Nimrud. Istanbul Archaeological Museum. Turkey. (Photo by: PHAS/UIG)

Archeological site of Monte Alban(500BC-AD900-1000).´Danzantes´.UNESCO World Heritage Site. Oaxaca, Mexico..

Marble grave relief with a funerary banquet and departing warriors. Greek, Hellenistic 2nd century B.C.

Sudan, North (Nubia), Bas-relief of Horus in Kom Ombo Temple

A photograph taken within Tomb KV1, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, used for the burial of Pharaoh Ramesses VII of the Twentieth Dynasty. Although it has been open since antiquity, it was only adequately investigated and cleared by Edwin Brock in 1984 and 1985. The single corridor tomb itself is located in Luxor's West Bank and is small in comparison to other tombs of the twentieth dynasty. Usermaatre Setepenre Meryamun Ramesses VII (also written Ramesses and Ramesses) was the sixth pharaoh of the twentieth dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from about 1136 to 1129 BC and was the son of Ramesses VI. The decoration within the passageway of the tomb contains illustrations from the Book of Gates, the Book of Caverns as well as the Book of the Earth. The walls of the burial chamber are decorated with extracts from the Book of the Earth.

Attack on the town of -alammu. Assyrian, 700-692 BC. South-West. Room XIV. Archers. Nineveh. Iraq. Iraq. British Museum. London.

Cartouche of Alexander the Great, wall fragment of a temple

The White Obelisk of Ashurnasirpal I, a limestone monolith from Nineveh. Dated 1050 BC

Bas relief, Angkor Wat main temple, Cambodia, Asia

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

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Stele depicting and offering scene. Includes demotic and hieroglyphic writing. Egypt. Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities. Stockholm. Sweden.

Relief Showing the Head of a Winged Genius. Mesopotamian, Assyrian. Date: 883 BC-859 BC. Dimensions: 68 × 59 × 4.5 cm (26 1/2 × 23 × 2 in.). Gypsum relief with traces of pigment. Origin: Nimrud. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, USA. Author: Ancient Mesopotamian.

Relief fragment: cavalrymen along a stream in mountainous terrain. Neo-Assyrian, ca. 704681 B.C. from Mesopotamia, Nineveh. made from Gypsum alabaster

Detail of relief showing soldiers using ladders to scale walls and capture Ethiopians from Egyptian city, from ancient Nineveh, Iraq

Stone relief, Bayon Temple, Angkor temples, Siem Reap, Cambodia, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Mud jar sealing indicating King Narmer's estate. Dimensions: H: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.); W: 7.6 cm (3 in.). Date: ca. 3100 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Egypt. Necropolis of Saqqara. Mastaba of Kagemni (2350 BC). Chief Justice and vizier of the Pharaoh Teti. Relief depicting offering bearers. 6th Dynasty. Old Kingdom.

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

Anonymous. Stone sarcophagus head panel: Three crossed crosses on stew. Limestone engraved. VIIIth century. Paris, Carnavalet museum. Two crosses patted on a stem dock a cruciferous palm tree; The bottom is stubborn. Cross, sham, panel, limestone, sarcophagus, archeological vestige

Yakshi Standing on a Fishtailed Mythical Beast (Makara) 201 BCE-200 CE Andhra Pradesh. Limestone .

Frieze from the Harpy Tomb, from the city of Xanthos, capital of ancient Lycia. Dated 470 BC.

Italy, Apulia, Daunian stele with decorations, side A

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.

Sandstone stela, 7th century, Santa Maria de Arrigorriaga, Arkeologi Museoa, museo aqueologico, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Pais Vasco, Spain.

Egyptian art. Great Temple of Ramses II. Relief depicting an offering to god Ra. 19th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Abu Simbel. Egypt.

Yakshas Relief 8th-9th century Nepal, Kathmandu Valley, possibly Deopatan Two bearded yakshas crouch in a rocky landscape, marking the threshold between the revealed world and the subterranean underworld, of which they are the gatekeepers and guardians. Yakshashere with deeply furrowed brows, long braids of hair piled in a topknot, and large globular earrings and braceletsare typically represented as obese dwarfs and are renowned for their mischievous and malevolent nature if not appeased. This panel likely functioned as a caryatid supporting a pillar of a Licchavi-period religious structure, a shrine, or pavilion (mandapa).. Yakshas Relief 38307

The storm-god Baal. Mesopotamian art. Relief on rock. FRANCE. ëLE-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Louvre Museum. Proc: SYRIA. Ras Shamra. Ugarit.

Cylinder seal with cultic scene 8th century B.C. Assyrian. Cylinder seal with cultic scene. Assyrian. 8th century B.C.. Mottled gray and cream Chalcedony (Quartz). Neo-Assyrian. Mesopotamia

Prisoners playing lyres. Assyrian, about 700-692 BC From Nineveh, South-West Palace. musicians are marched under escort through mountainous country Their dress indicates that they come from somewhere to the west of Assyria, possibly Phoenicia

Etruscan cinerary urn. Relief. Soldiers. Chiusi, Italy. 3rd c. BC. Terracotta. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Egyptian relief depicting the XVIII th Dynasty King Akhenaton ( circa 1353-1335 BC) making floral offering to the sun (Aten)

Mexico.Yucatan..Z.A. de Chichen itza.Cultura Maya.Relieve del juego de pelota.

Relief fragment: siege of a city by Assyrian troops ca. 704-681 B.C. Assyrian This relief fragment depicts part of an Assyrian assault on a fortified city. Two spearmen with crested helmets and round shields climb a ladder at the city wall, while beneath them ranks of Assyrian archers fire upward toward defenders (not preserved in this fragment). The Assyrian army, the great military power of its time in the Near East, was extremely effective in siege warfare and the taking of cities, and multiple depictions of sieges in reliefs such as this capture many of the technologies and tactics they employed. As well as the use of specialist ladder and spear teams with covering fire as depicted here, Assyrian reliefs depict examples of battering rams and siege engines, the undermining of walls, and even actions taken by the defenders such as pouring hot water or oil or attempting to sabotage siege engines. Drawings from the nineteenth century excavations at Nineveh indicate the original locatio

Relief with head of an offering bearer and offerings 664-610 B.C. Late Period, Saite see 23.3.468. Relief with head of an offering bearer and offerings. 664-610 B.C.. Limestone. Late Period, Saite. From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Nespekashuty (TT 312, MMA 509), MMA excavations, 1922-23. Dynasty 26

Fragment of Relief from a Column ca. 1295-1070 B.C. New Kingdom, Ramesside. Fragment of Relief from a Column 558337

Slab. Transportation of timber (cedars of Lebanon, Phoenician civilization). Transport ships. Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad, Iraq. Assyrian Empire. 8th century BC. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Lazio Viterbo Viterbo Museo Civico17. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Views of paintings (Middle Ages through 18th c.), frescoes, a tabernacle, coffin, sculpture reliefs, portal fragments, busts, sculpture, tapestry found in the Pinacoteca, Second floor gallery and Second floor cloister sequences. Antiquities: Many views of Etruscan and Roman fragments, sculpture, sarcophagi, pottery, masks, jewelry and other objects found in the Storeroom sequence (inventory numbers on back of prints), and the Cloister, Second floor Cloister, Valle Giulia, Sala Romana and Sala Etrusca sequences. General Notes: There are eight separate numerical sequences for this location. The cloister as an architectural structure, rather than museum site, is documented in the record and file for S. Maria della Verita, Cloister, all views of which are stored in Medieval core collection. Five views from the Museo Civico Second floor cloister sequence are stored in Medieval. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-

The Snake King Sankhapala Alara, invites to his palace and fight scenes. 3rd century Amaravati School (1st century BC - 3rd century AD) marmoreal limestone sculpture. Andhra Pradesh, India

Votive Stele toSaturn

tile with the representation of a Libyan prisoner, faience, 20th dynasty, reign of Remeses III, 1184-1153 BC, Tell el-Yahudiya, Egypt, collection of the British Museum.

EGYPTIAN ART. EGYPT. Relief of the religious procession of the great bulls, to commemorate the opening of the great pylon of Luxor built by Ramses II. Priest wearing offerings in a tray and bull being led to sacrifice. FIRST COURTYARD OF RAMSES II. LUXOR TEMPLE. Dynasty XIX. (1320-1200 BC) New Kingdom.

Cylinder seal (with caps preserved) with animals and divine symbols ca. 9th-8th century B.C. Assyrian. Cylinder seal (with caps preserved) with animals and divine symbols 324602

Encampment. Assyrian, about 865-850 BC. From Nimrud. On the left is a schematic view of the circular fortified camp with servants preparing food while a priest inspects the entrails of an animal to predict the future.

(Detail) relief from the Apadana, large hypostyle great audience hall at Persepolis. Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550330 BC). It is situated 60 km northeast of the city of Shiraz in Fars Province, Iran.

Fireplace with image. Fireplace with a weapon in which two climbing lions against a tree. On a paper: "This stone has come from the foundation of the Old Sluis on the Arkelschendijk".

Tile China. Tile 51959

Abruzzo, L'Aquila, S. Giuliano (L'Aquila environs), Museo, Italy, 20th century, photo, photography, Europe

King Tutankhamen seated with his wife, Ankhesenamun. Detail from a gilded wooden stand, for a statue to be place upon. Egyptian, 18th Dynasty from the Tomb antechamber of King Tutankhamen. 1323 BC

Fireplace, the Dutch lion in the garden. Fireplace, the Dutch lion in the garden, a lion on either side.

LADRILLO DE OSUNA-. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. Sevilla. Seville. SPAIN.

South Arabia as a general term refers to several regions as currently recognized, in chief the Republic of Yemen; yet it has historically also included Najran, Jizan, and 'Asir which are presently in Saudi Arabia, and Dhofar presently in Oman. The frontiers of South Arabia as linguistically conceived would include the historic peoples speaking the related South Arabian languages as well as neighboring dialects of Arabic, and their descendants. Anciently there was a South Arabian alphabet, which was borrowed by Ethiopia. South Arabia as generally conceived would include the lands inhabited by peoples partaking of its distinctive traditions and culture, which overlap recently demarcated political boundaries. Yemen or al-yaman means 'the south'. One etymology derives Yemen from yamin the 'right side' as the south is on the right when facing the sunrise; yet this etymology is considered suspect. Another derives Yemen from yumn meaning 'felicity' as the region is fertile; indeed the Romans

Relief: Kneeling genie facing right (joins1854.5)

Lazio Roma Rome S. Paolo68. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculptural fragments, inscribed tomb markers, sculpture, fresco painting, mosaics Specific Location: Basilica Antiquities: Architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculpture fragments General Notes: the "tomb markers" need to be sorted and catalogued 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.

Cylinder seal ca. 1820-1730 B.C.. Cylinder seal. ca. 1820-1730 B.C.. Hematite. Old Syrian. Syria

FIGURA DE PIE CON DOS CARNEROS - PROCOCEDENTE DE CERRILLO BLANCO DE PORCUNA - IBERICO - SIGLO V AC. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-COLECCION. JAEN. SPAIN.

Stele with Mayan inscriptions in Chichen Itza

Fragment steli chorążego Dżehutimesa. unknown, author

Relief Fragment 15th century or later European (). Relief Fragment. European (). 15th century or later. Marble. Sculpture-Stone

Ashlar fragment of a large stela with a South Arabian inscription referring to a deity called Sainan. 1st century BC-1st century AD. Stone. From Yemen. Detail. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Stela wotywna z Re-Harachte i zmarłym w kapliczce. unknown, author

Diana, the Roman goddess of hunting, Roman relief, 2-3rd cent. AD, Romano-German.

Coat of arms with a horseman leaving a castle, Cacabelos Archaeological Museum, Cacabelos village, El Bierzo region, Castile and Leon, Spain.

Romanesque Art. Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. Founded by the Count Wilfred the Hairy in 879 or 880. Historic-artistic monument since 1931. Detail of the sculptural portic representing the King David and four musicians (above) and the second vision of David (below). Ripoll. Catalonia. Spain.

Limestone throne dedicated to goddess Astarte and decorated with two winged sphinxes. Artefact from the necropolis of Tyre (Lebanon). Phoenician civilization, 4th-1st Century BC.

Hearthstone, Luiks, from Luik, Liege Belgium, with wide frame, with male and female head, hearth fireplace component ceramics brick, fired fireplace of the Liege type with wide frame with representation of male and female head separated from the side by flowering plant building history heating

Chariots with Court Ladies. Dimensions: H. 23.5 cm (9 1/4); w. 54.7 cm (21 9/16 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Akhenaten. Date: ca. 1353-1336 B.C..Court ladies taking part in a royal procession stand in light chariots, as their drivers urge on the horses. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Sandstone Stela showing the Deceased Presented to Osiris by Anubis 305 B.C.

Mexico, Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, North America. Museum of Mexican History. Here, Dintel, Maya in carved stone.

Lazio Roma Velletri Museo Civico di Velletri2. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Marble tondo of the depositon, early christian sarcophagus. Antiquities: Roman;statue of Athena, male and female sculpture fragments- heads, torsos, marble cinerary urn; cippi with inscriptions inscriptions, altars, sarcofagi, sarcofagus with scenes of the feats of Herakles. Etruscan; votive objects, heads, legs feet, eyes, uterus, intestine , animals; bronze objects Architectural sculpture and fragments; relief of procession pottery fragments, lamps; brickstamps. Object Notes: The Museo Civico is housed in the Palazzo Comunale. There are two Hutzel photo campaign notes, one undated and the other November 9, 1985. 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 o

Panel fragment ca. 8th-7th century B.C. Iran. Panel fragment 324184

Natha Siddha with Gorakshanatha in large panel on wall, Gaur Lena, Panhale Kazi caves number twenty-nine, Konkan, Maharashtra, India Copyright: xHemantxPatil/DinodiaxPhotox

estela funeraria copta de Tabine y Sara estela funeraria copta de Tabine y Sara, Edfu, IX d.C. , Gregorian Egyptian Museumn Musei Vaticani, State of the Vatican City, Roma, Lazio, Italia Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 21377955

Courtyard of the Temple of Rameses III 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

Royal lion hunt; Assyrian, about 645-635 BC; From Nineveh, Iraq. North Palace. Room C, panels 20-22. king Ashurbanipal races through the arena in his chariot. A lion that he has shot pursues the chariot and jumps up at its back.

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