Ancient Sculptures

Artifacts representing ancient civilizations, showcasing figurines and decorative pieces made from terracotta and ivory, indicative of cultural symbolism.

The goddess Lakshmi, Indian ivory statue found at Pompeii, Italy. Indian Civilisation, 1st century.

The goddess Lakshmi, Indian ivory statue found at Pompeii, Italy. Indian Civilisation, 1st century.

Plaque in the form of a reclining man ca. 1st century B.C.-A.D. 1st century Parthian This terracotta plaque features a figure reclining on a couch covered with a herringbone and stripe pattern. Identifiable as male due to his clothing, trousers and a belted, knee-length tunic, he is beardless, wears disk-shaped earrings and holds a cup in his left hand. His torso is angled so that the whole figure is seen from the front. Only a few other terracotta examples of figures in Parthian clothing exist, such as riders on horseback, soldiers, and musicians. Greek terracottas often feature reclining figures, usually males. The use of the pose among ancient Near Eastern plaques and figurines may indicate ties to Greek terracotta manufacturing centers along the eastern Mediterranean coast, although they typically depict females.. Plaque in the form of a reclining man 324481

Draped Male. Egypt, Ptolemaic Period - Roman Period (332 BCE - 337 CE). Sculpture. Terracotta

Drum columns with relief decoration (victim for Hathor and a divine child); 1st half 1st century BC 1st century (100-00-00-100-00-00);

Female Figure. Northern Syria, 2nd millennium B.C.. Sculpture. Terracotta

Clay puppet depicting a Roman soldier used as a toy. Dated between I and III centuries a.C. Mirak Fragonisi Cemetery. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Ilia Province. Peloponnese region. Greece.

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Field work, pedestal". Terracotta, around 1895. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. Pieddetal, terracotta, work, field

ARTE CELTA. ESPAÑA. CABEZA CASTREÑA tallada en granito, fechada hacia el siglo II a. C. Procede del Castro de Gaxate (A Lama, Pontevedra). Museo Provincial de Pontevedra. PONTEVEDRA. Galicia.

Statuette of a Cupid. Hellenistic art. Pentelic marble. From Teano, Campania. Italy. Barraco Museum. Rome.

Winged putto, Eugène Lacomblé, c. 1800 - c. 1900 clay clay

Terracotta's female figure. Sculpted with an elaborate hairstyle, a necklace and incised points around the navel and buttocks as a tattoo. These figures had a distinctly sexual and they are placed at chapels to invoke fertility or at tombs for the reincarnation of the deceased. 1985-1550 BC. Middle Kingdom (12th Dynasty) or Second Intermediate Period. Origin unknown. British Museum. London. United Kingdom.

Shu Late Period-Ptolemaic Period 664-30 B.C. View more. Shu. 664-30 B.C.. Faience. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt

Bust of Tanit (or Demeter). 4th - 3rd century BC. Terracotta.Es Culleram, Eivissa. Archeology Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.

Standing male lyre player ca. 600-480 B.C. Cypriot The cylindrical body is handmade and solid, with a bell-shaped concave base.. Standing male lyre player 241232

Nehebkau Late Period-Ptolemaic Period 664-30 B.C. View more. Nehebkau. 664-30 B.C.. Faience. Late Period-Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt

Iberian ashlars. Osuna group B. Fallen Iberian warrior holding a caetra (shield). Limestone. Early 1st century BC. Osuna (Seville). Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain.

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Anonymous (France). Bust at the V -cord, from the innocent. Pierre, 1500. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 54610-5 Aceceptal, bust, cemetery of the innocents, innocent cemetery, crossroad, cord, fragment, stone, saint, without head, torso, v, dress

Fragment sarkofagu ze sceną bitewną. warsztat rzymski, workshop

Prehistoric figurine from Tarxien Temples. 2200 BC. Malta.

Stone sculpture Park the mask of Pharaoh. Spain

Greek art. The parapet of the Athena Nike temple. Trophy decorated with Persian armour. South side of the parapet. 5th century BC. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece..

MUJER IBERICA - BARRO COCIDO DE LA ALBUFERETA. Location: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. Alicante. SPAIN.

Turkey. Bronze Age. Idol. Third millennium BC. Water marble. From Beycesultan, Kultepe, Anatolia. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. Ankara.

Pre-Columbian civilizations, Teotihuacan culture, relief in terracotta depicting bird

Lion figure. Dimensions: H. 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 13, mid. Date: ca. 1750 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Neolithic Period. Temple Period (3600 to 2500 BC). Tarxien Temple Complex. Malta. Built in honour of a mother goddess of fertility. Remains of the lower half belonging to a female colossal statue. It was originally about three metres high. It occupied a prominent position in the temple of Tarxien. National Museum of Archaeology. Valletta. Malta.

Woman making beer. ca. 2465 BC. Servant preparing beer. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Terra-cotta. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. CAIRO. Saqqara.

Gypsum statue of a man dated 2500 BC

FUENTE CON FORMA DE CUERNO POTORIO, PRIMERA EDAD AUGUSTEA. Author: PONTIOS. Location: MUSEO CAPITOLINO. Rome. ITALIA.

Cosmetic spoon from Tomb 136 at Sedment. Naked young woman holding a bowl with a tall cone of frag ointment. Wood. 18th Dynasty. Amenhotep III. C.1390-1352 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Standing female flute player late 5th-early 4th century B.C. Cypriot The figurine, from a ring dance group, is handmade and solid, with a mold-made head. The figure is preserved from the head to about the thighs, where there is a clean horizontal break.. Standing female flute player 241244

Figure. Eastern Mediterranean, 8th century B.C.. Sculpture. Ceramic

Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist 19th century Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux French According to legend, in 1008 the Virgin Mary encircled the city of Valenciennes with a protective cord, thus saving the citizens from the plague. Carpeaux sketched this group upon his return to Paris from his native Valenciennes, having attended the consecration of the church dedicated to the Virgin's miraculous intervention.. Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist. French. 19th century. Plaster. Sculpture

Female Torso(Devi), 11thcentury, Beige sandstone, 19 × 8 × 5 1/2 in. (48.26 × 20.32 × 13.97cm), India, Indian, Sculpture

Lionhead gargoyle. 2nd century AD. Limestone. From the entablure of the courtyard colonnades of the Sanctuary of Jupiter Heliopolitanus. Baalbek, Lebanon. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germnany.

Iberian ashlars. Osuna group B. Man attacked by a lion. Limestone. Early 1st century BC. Osuna (Seville). Spain.

Limestone altar 1st half of 5th century B.C. Cypriot The altar is decorated on two sides; on one, together with a Cypro-syllabic inscription, is a sacrifice scene; on the other a couple are shown at a banquet.. Limestone altar 241873

Egypt, Ramesside period, Ostracon depicting a religious scene with flowers and a snake found in Deir el-Medina

Terracotta statuette of Silenos () drinking 3rd century B.C. () Cypriot The figurine is mold-made and hollow. It is preserved from the head to the abdomen. Silenos' arms are bent to hold a round vessel to his lips, as if to drink.. Terracotta statuette of Silenos () drinking 241241

Edme Antony Noël (1845-1919) (dit Tony-Noël). Plaster. 1904. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 145009-17 Character, plaster, sculpt, base

A 1000-year-old stele engraved with the image of a Mayan ruler. Found in the Lagartero archaeological area of Chiapas, Mexico. Archaeologists found the bas relief late 2009 while excavating the 10th section of Pyramid 4 in Lagartero. The stele depicts the ruler standing above a man at his feet, probably representing a seizure of power

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Fragment of a wall decoration with a female dancer. Culture: Sasanian. Dimensions: 11 x 7.25 in. (27.94 x 18.42 cm). Date: ca. 6th century A.D..The stuccos from the Ma'aridh I house in the Ctesiphon area include several dancers and musicians. This stucco is of a female dancer in motion with a castanet in her hand. She wears a dress with a draped top, belted with a rosette at the waist. This fragment would have been part of a larger scene of musicians and dancers on a wall within the house. The city of Ctesiphon was located on the east bank of the Tigris River, 20 miles (32 km) south of modern Baghdad in Iraq. It flourished for more than 800 years as the capital of the Parthians and the Sasanians, the last two dynasties to rule the ancient Near East before the Islamic conquest in the seventh century. Systematic excavations in the Ctesiphon area were undertaken by an expedition in 1928-29 sponsored by the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft). The Metropolitan Museum of

Relief plaque with a banquet scene ca. 2600-2500 B.C. Sumerian. Relief plaque with a banquet scene. Sumerian. ca. 2600-2500 B.C.. Gypsum alabaster. Early Dynastic IIIa. Mesopotamia, Nippur

Double -sided gingerbread form obverse: post The young people played on the corner of the Reverse: Three performances; XVIII-XIX century (1790-00-00-1810-00-00);

Head of Addorsed Maheshvara ca. 6th century Northern Pakistan (Brahmanical post-Gupta) This sculpture depicting Shiva is altogether a more complex and esoteric religious icon. The Head of Addorsed Maheshvara represents Shiva, with braids of hair drawn up into a fanned topknot, again displaying a crescent moon on the chignon and the third eye on the forehead. However, in a rarely represented form, Shiva bears on his shoulders a squatting dwarf-like personage, a gana, grinning wide-mouthed, eyes focused skyward, as if ecstatic in his devotion, perhaps engaged in singing in praise of his Lord. Shiva displays classic 5th-6th century late Gupta features: a rounded fleshy face, cascading locks of hair and large circular earplugs. Though not entirely clear, he appears to hold in each hand a disc and a crescent, presumably intended to represent solar symbols. On the reverse is a grotesque facea wild and early form of Shiva sometimes identified as Rudra (‘the howler’). This esoteric form of Sh

Makara waterspuwer, anonymous, c. 1000 - c. 1199 The aquyweed is made in the form of a Makara - a mythical water system. The water passes in at the Waterpuwer and poured in the back and walks out through the mouth of the Makara. Above that is a standing ascetic depicted with long hair and his hands in meditation position. East Java extrusive rock The aquyweed is made in the form of a Makara - a mythical water system. The water passes in at the Waterpuwer and poured in the back and walks out through the mouth of the Makara. Above that is a standing ascetic depicted with long hair and his hands in meditation position. East Java extrusive rock

Attic krater with lid depicting Heracles setting free Prometheus from his torment by the eagle, by Nettos Painter, black-figure pottery

Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr 4th century B.C. Etruscan, Cerveteri On temple roofs, satyr-head antefixes often alternate with maenad antefixes, such as 96.18.158. They are set in a shell-like background, decorated with palmettes and lotus blossoms.. Terracotta antefix (roof tile) with head of a satyr 246655

Sandstone Gargoyle. Found at Weoley Castle, Birmingham, a Birmingham Museums Trust heritage site

Pillar covering: head of Panji, Torso female figure, anonymous, 1300 - 1500 A cylinder fragment (bamboo silence cladding) with head of Panji and torso of a female figure. Java terracotta (clay material) A cylinder fragment (bamboo silence cladding) with head of Panji and torso of a female figure. Java terracotta (clay material)

SILLAR DE ESQUINA CON FIGURA DE TORO. DETALLE DE LA CABEZA. IBERICO ESCULTURA. (DEPOSITO: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL).

Crocodile statue Late 1st century B.C. - early 1st century A.D. Roman Period This sculpture is a fine interpretation of the crocodile's physical peculiarities. The horny back contrasts expressively with the fleshy folds around the neck and eyes. The tense posture of the plump legs suggests the weight of the beast.. Crocodile statue. Late 1st century B.C. - early 1st century A.D.. Granite. Roman Period. From Egypt

Statue of a Sitting Man

Corbel with Animal Mask Sprouting Leaves from the Monastery Church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Grande-Sauve. French, Aquitaine. Date: 1150-1200. Dimensions: 45.7 × 25.4 × 59.7 cm (18 × 10 × 23 1/2 in.). Limestone. Origin: . Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Enthroned female figure with remains of white and blue paint 400-300 BC Enthroned female figure with remains of white and blue paint 400-300 BC, Archaeological Museum of Ibiza and Formentera, Ibiza, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 23005445

Pilaster (France); wood (oak)

Noh Actor in a Hannya Role. Matsuki Hōkei (Japan, active Meiji period, 1868-1912). Japan, late 19th century. Costumes; Accessories. Carved red lacquer

Bachus. Broniewska, Janina (1886-1947)

Falcon head with divine wig from a statue with an anthropomorphic body ca, 1200-332 B.C. Ramesside-Late Period. Falcon head with divine wig from a statue with an anthropomorphic body. ca, 1200-332 B.C.. Diorite. Ramesside-Late Period. From Egypt. Dynasty 19-30

la lleona, 12th century, detail in a column, Calderers street, Girona art museum, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Altar of Limestone. King's Stanley near Stroud, Gloucestershire in England. Roman second Century AD

Limestone female figure, possibly late Neolithic 4500-3200 BC. From Karpathos. This figure has some features in common with Cycladic figurines.

Fragment of Roman pilaster, 1st century BC, in the Roman Villa of Torre Llauder or Can Llauder, Mataró, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Museum: Museo de Mataró, Mataró, Barcelona, Cataluña, España.

Lady with cloak, Whitish limestone. Roman culture, probably Augustan period, 1st centuries BC - 1st centuries AD., Doña Aldonza's farmhouse, Archeological Museum. Úbeda, Jaén , Andalusia, Spain.

Iberian figure of a bull. Limestone. Part of a funerary monument. End of the 5th century BC. From Osuna (province of Seville, Andalusia), Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

GrabStelen Funery Stela, Hormilleje, I Century BC, Romanization Museum, Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain, Europe

Terracotta group of a boy with a bunch of grapes and a predatory cockerel. Dated 1st Century BC

Globular Jar with Modeled Figures in Erotic Scene. Chancay; Central coast, Peru. Date: 1000-1470. Dimensions: 29.2 × 22.9 cm (11 1/2 × 9 in.). Ceramic and pigment. Origin: Central Coast. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

CANOPO CON INSCRIPCIONES (NUEVO IMPERIO)-KEBESHUF-HIJO DE HORUS. Location: EGYPTIAN MUSEUM. KAIRO. EGYPT. KEBESHUF DIOS EGIPCIO.

Relief with people setting down braziers. Dimensions: h. 22.9 cm (9 in); w. 53.3 cm (21 in). Dynasty: Dynasty 18. Reign: reign of Akhenaten. Date: ca. 1353-1336 B.C.. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Limestone male banqueter late 6th or early 5th century B.C. Cypriot Votary with hair in fillet.. Limestone male banqueter 242057

Female stone bust. It was apparently discovered at Ggantija temples, Gozo island. Malta. Gozo Museum of Archaeology. Cittadela of Victoria in Gozo. Malta.

Male Figure with Articulated Limbs. Mexico, Campeche, Maya, 600-900 CE. Ceramics. Ceramic with postfire applied pigment

Assyrian head statue. (circa 710-705 BC). Taken from Khorsabad. From a edu, A protective spirit statue used to guard palace doorways.

Relief from casket Roman Relief from a casket with Herakles holding a club.. Relief from casket. Roman. Ivory

Fireplace with a representation of a rider on horseback. Fireplace with a representation of a rider on horseback.

stele of the goddess of the Sun Gate stele of the goddess of the Sun Gate, 5th century BC, main square, Tablas bridge, Iberian Museum of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 21714813

Back of the stele of Novilara, 6th Century,

Figure of a Greek Goddess, clay, about 2,600 years ago, Boeotia, Greece, Europe.

Bust-load by Victor Hugo with Notre-Dame in Miter. Waxed plaster. Paris, house of Victor Hugo. 54513-7 Bust-load, Notre-Dame cathedral, handwritten writing, French writer, effigy, miter, plaster wax, representation, representation, 19th XIXth 19th 19th 19th 19th 19

PINTURA DE DANZARINA-XVIII DINASTIA-1450 AC-ARTE EGIPCIO. Location: MUSEO DE ARTE EGIPCIO. TURIN. ITALIA.

12th century relief, Lion devouring a man, found in Llop Street in Gerona, Girona art museum, Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

Mexico, Puebla, Cholula, Cholula site museum Clay figure of Huehueteotl the God of fire

Sketch of the Biaron with the king in the proportion net, the Biaryski model with the most; 332-30 BC ; Ptolemean period (-332-00-00--30-00-00);Deposit of the University of Warsaw from 1937-1939, scenes.gal.g., king (iconogr.), Models of reliefs, sketches, Polish-French excavations in Edfu (Egypt)

Terracotta statuette of an actor. Culture: Greek, Attic. Dimensions: H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm). Date: late 5th-early 4th century B.C..Fourteen of these figures are said to have been found together in a burial in Attica. They are among the earliest known statuettes of actors and are superbly executed and preserved. Originally they were brightly painted. They document the beginning of standardized characters and masks, indicating the popularity not of a specific figure but of types--the old man, the slave, the courtesan, etc.--that appeared repeatedly in different plays. By the mid-fourth century B.C., Attic examples or local copies were known throughout the Greek world, from Southern Russia to Spain. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Hoa Hakananai'a, from Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Polynesia, c1000. Artist: Unknown

Exhibit, stone figure, Maya Museum Gran Museo del Mundo Maya, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, Central America

Top drum (capitol) of a column from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus About 350 BC. The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus, was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, who was both his wife and his sister.

Head of a Bodhisattva 7th-8th century India (Bihar, Nalanda). Head of a Bodhisattva 38413

Capital ca. 1130-40 Catalan. Capital. Catalan. ca. 1130-40. Marble. Made in present-day France. Sculpture-Architectural

Female Attendant (Tomb Figurine). China; probably Shaanxi province. Date: 200 BC-101 BC. Dimensions: 30.0 × 8.3 × 5.6 cm (11 13/16 × 3 1/4 × 2 3/16 in.). Gray earthenware with slip coating and polychrome pigments. Origin: China. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Openwork furniture plaque with a striding bull ca. 9th-8th century B.C. Assyrian During the early first millennium B.C., ivory carving was one of the major luxury arts that flourished throughout the ancient Near East. Elephant tusks were carved into small decorative objects such as cosmetic boxes and plaques used to adorn wooden furniture. Gold foil, paint, and semiprecious stone and glass inlay embellishments enlivened these magnificent works of art. Based on certain stylistic, formal, and technical characteristics also visible in other media, scholars have distinguished several coherent style groups of ivory carving that belong to different regional traditions including Assyrian, Phoenician, North Syrian and South Syrian (the latter also known as Intermediate).Several ivories in the Metropolitan Museums collection are from the Aramaean town of Arslan Tash, ancient Hadatu, in northern Syria just east of the Euphrates River, close to the modern Turkish border. French archaeological ex

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

Sketch of a King 1295 BCE-1069 BCE Egypt. Egyptian artists often made sketches on flakes of limestone, called ostraca. This example shows how the preliminary outline was done in red pigment, then corrected, and finished in black. Often these sketches were the work of two craftsmen, a draftsman and a master artist. This ostracon shows a king wearing a crown with streamers and a pleated kilt. He leans on a standard topped with the ram-headed emblem of the god Amun.. Limestone and pigment . Ancient Egyptian

Polymorphic deity. Dimensions: H. 3.4 × W. 1.5 × D. 2.5 cm (1 5/16 × 9/16 × 1 in.). Date: 664-30 B.C..Polymorphic deities combine a given deity's form with often animal elements from other deities. Here the dwarf-like body of Pataikos is combined with a ram's head and has a falcon's back. The proliferation of representations of polymorphic deities, is a phenomenon of the first millennium. The meaning of the conjoined forms is not settled, but they are positive figures. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

ESCULTURA IBERICA ZOOMORFA. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-ESCULTURA IBERICA. GRANADA. SPAIN.

Plaque 6th-7th century. Plaque 449527

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