Ancient Roman Reliefs

Detailed marble reliefs depicting historical battles and figures, showcasing the artistry of Roman sculptures and the grandeur of ancient times.

Relief depicting the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus, Roman sarcophagus, 180 ca., Monumental Cemetery of Pisa (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1987), Tuscany, Italy, Roman civilization, 2nd century. Detail.

Amazon sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman Period. Early 3rd century AD. Detail. Batlle between the Amazons and the Greeks. Relief. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Roman Art. Italy. Ara Pacis Augustae. Processional frieze. Detail. Relief. Original South side. Central section. Four of the figures at the center have been identified as flamines, the leading members of the priestly orders of the state religion. They use distinctive leather caps (galerus), tied under the chin, with palmettes in front and behind the ears, with a point of olive wood mounted on a disk (apex) protruding from their caps. Next, flaminius lictor, carrying a ritual axe on his shoulder followed by Agrippa. Dated 13th century BC. Museum of the Ara Pacis. Rome. Italy.

Italy. Pisa. Camposanto. Roman sarcophagus. Detail: Panisco with seated hermaphrodite. Ca.125.

Sarcophagus of Proserpina, from Santa Pola, Alicante. 3rd century. Museum: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid.

Sarcophagus with scene of Bacchanal, by Unknown artist, 2nd Century, marble, high relief. Italy: Campania: Naples: National Archaeological Museum: 27710. Detail. Sarcophagus bacchanal satyr nymph Bacchante supine herm temple

Relief depicting the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus, Roman sarcophagus, 180 ca., Monumental Cemetery of Pisa (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1987), Tuscany, Italy, Roman civilization, 2nd century. Detail.

Roman art. Sarcophagus panel depicting Athena, Muses and Apollo. Detail. 3rd century AD. Marble. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Relief depicting the Defence of Human Rights. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA.

Marble sarcophagus fragment. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: Other (reconstructed): 38 1/8 in. × 8 3/4 in. × 46 7/8 in. (96.8 × 22.2 × 119.1 cm). Date: mid-2nd century A.D..The relief, which originally formed the front panel of a large sarcophagus, depicts the death of the Greek hero Meleager, famous for killing the Calydonian boar. On other Roman sarcophagi this scene accompanies that of the hunt itself, showing Meleager spearing the ferocious boar. However, here the focus is on the dying hero who is being carried home surrounded by his grieving father and companions. During the Renaissance the scene became the prototype for artistic representations of the Deposition of Christ. The panel, as it now survives, includes 16th-century restorations. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Massacre of the Innocents, detail from Scenes from the Life of Christ, Stories of the New Testament, bas-reliefs by Lorenzo Maitani (before 1275-1330), third pillar, facade of Orvieto cathedral, Umbria, Italy, 13th-14th century.

SARCOFAGO DE HELLIN, PRECEDENTE DE ALBACETE. DEPOSITO: ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA.

Sidamara Sarcophagus. 2nd-3rd century AD. Hunting scene. Detail. Marble. Roman Period. Ambararasi (Konya). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey.

Hellenistic relief of a sacrifice. Artist: Unknown

(Detail) from the Apotheosis of Homer, 3rd-century BC, marble relief, by Archelaus of Prieneis. The Apotheosis was a common scene in classical and neo-classical art, showing the poet Homer's elevation to divine status. Homer was the subject of a number of formal hero cults in classical antiquity.

Sarcophagus of the seasons. Early 4th century AD. Basilica of Emporion, Girona, Catalonia Marble.

Imperial Roman era. Basin of sculpture of a river god Arno. Sarcophagus. 170-180 AD. Decorated with scenes of battles between Greeks and Amazons. Relief. Vatican Museums.

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.

Roman art. Syria. Reliefs of sacrifice. Palmyra Archaeological Museum. Tadmor.

Sarcophagus. Myth of Medea. Sending of gifts to Creusa's death. Marble. 150-170 AD. Rome. National Roman Museum. Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy.

A youth with his horse and dog Roman, about AD 125 Found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli This youth once controlled his spirited horse with a metal bridle attached to the hole in the marble at its muzzle. The relief is a Roman creation, designed to decorate a wall of Hadrian's Villa. It was influenced by Classical Greek models, such as the Parthenon Frieze.

A Dionysiac procession, Roman AD 100, from the Villa Quintiliana on the Appian way, British museum, London, England, Great Britain.

Greek art. Archaic. Siphnish Treasury. Frieze sculpture. Ionic style. 530-525 BC. Ares, Aphrodite, Artemis and Apollo. They are supporting the Trojans. Delphi Archaeological Museum.

Italy. Pisa. Camposanto. Roman sarcophagus with a scene of Calydonian hunt. Front panel. Marble. 290-295 CE.

Relief depicting Justice and Divine Inspiration. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA

Pio Clementino Museum of Roman Art, Vatican museum, Rome, Italy.

Marble sarcophagus, relief with deceased as he reads to his wife and daughter, from Konya (Sidamara), Turkey

Glienicke Castle with Pergola, Spolia and Ornaments in Berlin Wannsee, Berlin, Germany 1020925599

Alabaster urn depicting the killing of the suitors of Penelope or Proci, Etruscan civilization

The Judgment of Junius Brutus, Treacher (1) c. 1650 - c. 1652 In the middle of the foreground, three -quarters turn to the left turn brutus' youngest son with his hands on his back awaiting the ax, which will inflict him behind him. This, completely naked and with the back three -quarters to the viewer, holds the ax with both hands above the head. On the far left Brutus' tunic and bar, frontal, standing on the right leg and with the left sideways. He holds the right arm in front of the chest, the face left to the right and the stretched left arm imaginating to the executioner to the sign that the verdict can be performed. In front of him lies the beheaded body of his eldest son; Behind him is a dog. In the background the upper body of a convicted person with bound wrists opposite a fourth, led for execution by a Roman soldier who pushes him down. Two boys on the right and left of the executioner, one of whom carries its cloak and the other with the folded hands in front of tears has er

Marble frieze in the Voortrekker Monument showing scenes of the Great Trek, Pretoria, South Africa, Africa

Relief depicting English King John I, Equity and the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA

Detail of Alexander sarcophagus, marble, from royal necropolis of Sidon, Lebanon

Hebe and Hera, depicted on the Parthenon Friezes, Athens. 439 - 433 BC

Phaedra woos stepson Hippolytus, Roman Phaedra Hippolytus sarcophagus, Sarcofago romano, Fedra e Ippolito, 2nd century, Antiquity, Camposanto Monumentale, Miracles Square, Piazza dei Miracoli also Campo dei Miracoli, Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Europe

Souillac, former abbey church of Sainte-Marie, portal sculptures, relocated to the interior in the 17th century, Theophilus relief, Theophilus makes a pact with the devil

Early Christian. Roman sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus (330-335 AD) . Miracle of the loaves and fishes. Via della Lungara next S. Giacomo, Rome. National Museum of Rome. Massim Palace. Rome. Italy.

Ludovisi Battle sarcophagus. 3rd century. Roman era. Battle scene between Romans and Goths. In the center with horse Hostilian or Herennius Etruscus (son of emperor Decius). National Museum of Rome. Altemps Palace. Rome. Italy.

Roman civilization, relief depicting scene from comedy Andria (The Girl from Andros) by Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), detail

Marble relief of an elderly man shaking hands with a younger man, Archaeological Museum, Piraeus, Greece.

relief with the annunciation and coronation of Mary relief with the annunciation and coronation of Mary, XII century, cloister of Santo Domingo de Silos, Burgos province, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21429046

SARCOFAGO DE HELLIN, PRECEDENTE DE ALBACETE. DEPOSITO: ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA.

Marble sarcophagus with reliefs depicting Meleager's death, 180 a.d. circa. Detail of cycle of Argonauts with Jason catching Golden Fleece

Sacrifice to Vagdarercustis. Romano-Celtic goddess. Making offerings at altar. Romano german period relief GERMANY.

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Capitoline Museum, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Sarcophagus with the Calydonian boar hunt, Proconnesian marble, Meleager hunts the Calydonian boar before Artemis

God forbids eating fruit from the the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (fig), detail from the Stories of Genesis, bas-reliefs by Lorenzo Maitani (before 1275-1330), first pillar, lateral facade of Orvieto cathedral, Umbria, Italy, 13th-14th century.

Ancient Roman Burial Box Stone Sculpture Capitoline Museum, Rome, Italy

The Decennalia. Base of the column in the Roman Forum. Erected in 303 to commemorate the 10 years of government of the emperors Diocleciano and Majencio. Relief. Rome, Italy.

Roman sarcophagus. About 180 AD. Goddess Athena, God Apollo and the nine Muses (goddesses of the inspiration of literature, science and the arts. Reliefs. Detail. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.

Wall plaque in Burgos Cathedral (Cathedral of Saint Mary of Burgos) in the city of Burgos in northern Spain. UNESCO World Heritage Site.

italy two statue of a men in the front of the duomo church in milan

TERUEL. RELIEVE DE LOS AMANTES DE TERUEL EN LA ESCALINATA , CONSTRUIDA EN EL AÑO 1991 , QUE ENLAZA LA CIUDAD CON LA ESTACION DE FERROCARRIL. OBRA DE ANICETO MARINAS.

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

Fassade façade, San Esteban Church, Murillo de Río Leza, La Rioja , Spain, Europe Copyright: xZoonar.com/BartomeuxBalaguerxRotgerx 22945795

Athenian youth greeting older man. Relief. 5th century BC

Fragmentary Sarcophagus with the Muses. Unknown mid-3rd century A.D. Fragments of panels from a sarcophagus. Front. A curtain pulled across the background is fastened in several places beneath the projecting border at the top. In the right corner, Melpomene with the mask of tragedy. The mask has a lion skin, representing Herakles, drawn over it. She wears a long-sleeved chiton with a wide belt, and a chlamys over her shoulders. To the left, the celestial globe of Ourania (the muse herself is missing). The globe has three stars and a middle strip bearing a crab. Next to Ourania would have been a seated man; only traces remain today. Continuing leftwards, Euterpe holds the tibiae (pipes) with both hands. She wears a sleeved chiton trimmed with tassels at the hem. A short mantle is wrapped around her shoulders and tucked under her belt. To the right of Euterpe are the remains of a pillar. Beside her is Thalia, wearing a close-fitting netlike garment with a mantle wrapped around her lower

Grabmal von Blanca de Navarra Tomb of Blanca de Navarra, 12th century, Romanesque carving, Pantheon of the Infants, Monastery of Santa María La Real, Nájera, La Rioja, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22946471

Front side of sarcophagus depicting mother watching her children play, Detail

The upper part of the Tomb of Payava, a Lycian tall rectangular free-standing barrel-vaulted stone sarcophagus built for Payava, ruler of Xanthos. Dated 360 BC

Soldiers at an Encampment, Stone Tablet from the Amsterdam Soldatengasthuis (Soldiers Hospital), anonymous, 1587 A facing brick with soldiers in some tents, together with Cartouche Inv. No. BK-AM-77-B. Coming from the old soldiers Gasthuis in Amsterdam. Become polychromed again under Schmidt degener. Amsterdam . A facing brick with soldiers in some tents, together with Cartouche Inv. No. BK-AM-77-B. Coming from the old soldiers Gasthuis in Amsterdam. Become polychromed again under Schmidt degener. Amsterdam .

Fragment of Ara Pacis Augustae, altar built between 13 and 9 b.C. to celebrate peace established by Roman emperor Augustus, Relief with family group

Plutei of Trajan. Stone balustrades built by emperor Trajan. 103 AD. Trajan distributing the alimenta, charitable organisation for orphans. Curia Julia. Roman Forum. Rome. Italy.

Greek art. Votive relief: the Eleusinian Mysteries. Demeter, Persephone and Triptolemus.. Athens, museum of archaeology. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-ESCULTURA. ATHENS. GREECE. DEMETER. PERSEPHONE. TRIPTOLEMOS. DIOSA DE LA AGRICULTURA.

Altar of Mars and Venus, by Unknown artist, 53 - 117,, Luni Marble. Italy. Lazio. Rome. Palazzo Massimo alle Terme. Sala V - inv. 324. View of the main front side depicting the divine wedding between Mars and Venus Cupid garlands ram altar from the arcade of Piazzale delle Corporazioni in Ostia (1880). State of preservation of many breaks and cracks, fragmentary protomorphic rams

Relief depicting a scene from the Passion of Christ, 15th century. The Kiss of Judas and the Arrest of Christ. Alabaster. From Nottingham Workshops (England). Carmo Archaeological Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

Italy. Rome. Ara Pacis Augustae. Altar dedicated to Pax. 13-9 BC. Foundint Rome. Aeneas sacrificing to the Penates.

Amazon sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman Period. Early 3rd century AD. Batlle between the Amazons and the Greeks. Relief. The lid bears te unfinished images of the deceased and his wife. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

ARA FUNERARIA CON ESCENA DE DEXTRARUM IUNCTIO - CEREMONIA NUPCIAL - MATRIMONIO. Location: MUSEO DE LAS TERMAS. Rome. ITALIA.

Bacchanalian Relief, AD 1-100. Pakistan, Gandhara, Buner area, early Kushan period (AD 1-320). Schist; overall: 16 x 53 cm (6 5/16 x 20 7/8 in.).

Marble relief depicting Battle of Gods and Giants, detail of goddess Artemis and half human, half snake deity, from Aphrodisias (Turkey)

Depiction of an Amazonomachy. Detail of the frieze from the grave monument of Nikeratos and his son Polyxenos. Found in Kallithea. Ca. 330 BC. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Greece.

Spain, Extremadura, Caceres province, Valencia de Alca´ntara. King Alfonso XII of Spain (1857-1885) and King Luis I of Portugal (1838-1889) on the occasion of the inauguration of the Madrid-Lisbon railway line, October 8, 1881. The kings leaving the station. Life drawing by Juan Comba. Engraving by Vela. La Ilustracion Espan~ola y Americana, 1881.

Sidamara Sarcophagus. 2nd-3rd century AD. Hunting scene. Marble. Roman Period. Ambararasi (Konya). Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey.

'Sarcophagus fragment: Poet and Muse'. Ancient Rome, third quarter of the 3rd century. Dimensions: 44x48 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

Ancient Greece. Funerary stele of Euphanes' family. Early 4th century BC. From the north cemetery of Piraeus. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Greece.

Amazon sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman Period. Early 3rd century AD. Batlle between the Amazons and the Greeks. Relief. The lid bears te unfinished images of the deceased and his wife. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Marble relief with Dioscuri, Castor, Pollux and worshippers procession, from Rome

Double Capital late 15th century French. Double Capital. French. late 15th century. Marble. Made in Pyrénées, France. Sculpture-Stone

Bartomeu de Robio (documented in Lleida between 1359-1379). Relief depicting the Apparition of Saint Andrew to a bishop tempted by a demon, second half of 14th century. From the church of Santa Maria, Castello de Farfanya, Catalonia. National Art Museum of Catalonia. Barcelona. Catalonia. Spain.

th, Karlskirche, relief on a triumphal column, Gerlach , Wiedling Buch- und Kunstverlag, publishing house

SARCOFAGO PALEOCRISTIANO DE LAYOS - SIGLO IV - ADAN Y EVA. Location: ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Relief portraying satyrs pressing grapes

RELIEVE DE ORFEO EURIDICE Y HERMES - SIGLO V AC. Location: NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ARCHAEOLOGY. NEAPEL. ITALIA.

Italy. Rome. Ara Pacis. Panel of Tellus. Detail. The sea winds, riding on the back of a sea serpent. 13-9BC.

The Birth and the First Seven Steps of the Buddha. Pakistan; Present-day Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, ancient region of Gandhara. Date: 101 AD-300 AD. Dimensions: 27.3 × 52.1 × 10.8 cm (10 3/4 × 20 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.). Phyllite. Origin: Gandhara. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

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

Monumental tomb. Sarcophagus. Roman period. Cladius Era. 1st century. Hierapolis Archaeology Museum. Turkey. Detail.

Dedication. A winged Nike crowns Herakles or a victorious athlete before the Goddess Athena. 420-410 BC. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece.

Black squire taming horse, detail of funerary monument from Athens, Greece

Apotheosis of Caesar, 161 AD ITALY.

Sarcofagos with the creation of mankid by Prometheus. White marble, from Pozzuoli, Italy. 4th century AD. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

Italy. Rome. Arch of Septimius Severus. Triumphal arch built in 203 AD to commemorate the Parthian victories of emperors Septimius Severus, Caracalla and Geta. Reliefs. Detail.

Emperor Trajan, detail from a relief depicting a triumphal cortege. Roman civilisation.

Funerary altar. Marble. Roman cuople joining hands (dextrarum iunctio). She, in stola and palla, he in toga. 40-50 CE. Rome. Claudian era. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.

Croatia, Salona, Solin, Manastirine, Sarcophagus depicting the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus

Roman era. Sarcophagus of Metilia Acte. From Pianebella, near Ostia. C. 161-170 CE. Wife of Gaius Junius Euhodus. Priestess of the Magna Mater from Ostia. The relief depicts scenes of myth of Alcestis. Detail. Vatican Museums.

Roman Art. Sarcphagus with Cupids and Portrait. C. 250-270 AD. Marble. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Denmark.

Marble inscribed grave stele. From Platani, Attica, AD14-37. The deceased Sympherousa, daughter of Philemon, spears with an aged relative or a servant in a farewell scene.

Sol invectus, moon and Jupiter Dolichenus. 2nd century AD. Detail.National Roman Museum. The Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy.

Panel from the Nereid Monument, a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in classical period Lycia.

Portugal, Centro Region, Alcobaca, Alcobaca Monastery,Tomb of Pedro I King of Portugal (1320-1367)

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