Collections: Items Tagged "sunk relief"

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On View: Headrest of Shemai

This headrest—the Egyptian version of a pillow—was found in the tomb of a man named Shemai. Headrests were believed to have magi...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Figure of a Hornblower

    This figure probably stood on an altar dedicated to a deceased king, or oba. His conical hat and elaborately wrapped kilt with a projection ...

     

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    Found 9 Items Tagged "sunk relief"

    Relief of Mourning Men, Roughly Rectangular SlabRelief of Ramses IIFragment of PaletteBlock with Sunk Relief and InscriptionsStela of Pth-myBlock of a Series of Musicians in Sunk ReliefBlock with the Head of a Bull in Sunk Relief

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