The satyr mask on the left is shown with ram s horns and above a basket.
Marble two sided relief.
Relief also called relievo from italian relievare to raise in sculpture any work in which the figures project from a supporting background usually a plane surface reliefs are classified according to the height of the figures projection or detachment from the background.
The masks of a young maenad and a bearded silenus are carved on one side in high relief.
B c in national museum greece.
Description a three sided relief cut from a single block.
Marble votive relief of bearded dionysus 1st c.
The satyr mask on the right has the horns of a goat.
Venice marble relief detail art sculpture venice.
The double sided relief has a crack that runs down.
A shepherd s crook known in antiquity as a pedum and two cymbals rest between them.
The double sided mithraic relief is an example of a bas relief which means that rather than creating a three dimensional sculpture.
A shepherd s crook known in antiquity as a pedum and two cymbals rest between them.
The masks of a young maenad and a bearded silenus are carved on one side in high relief.
The masks of a young maenad and bearded silenus are carved on the one side in high relief.
Seated on the right is demeter with her head veiled in mourning for her daughter persephone.
This double sided mithraic relief made of marble dates back to the 2nd or 3rd century ce and was created by the ancient romans.
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The peristyle gardens of roman houses and villas were filled with decorative marble reliefs such as this one.
Marble two sided relief 1st century a d.
This is a decorative marble relief from a peristyle garden of a roman house or villa.
A shepherd s crook known in antiquity as a pedum and two cymbals rest between them.
The relief was most likely used for decorative purposes and may have been placed in one of the mithraeum s or places of worship.
This is a marble two sided relief originating from rome and carved in the imperial period in the 1st century a d.
Marble two sided relief roman 1st century ad peristyle garden rome.
Aphrodite is seated opposite consulting with her son eros at the center who holds the scales made from a separate piece of marble to determine how long persephone will stay in the underworld.
Dionysiac cult objects and theatrical masks are often depicted on similar marble ornaments found in pompeii where they were.
A marble relief adorning the facade of the fondamenta dei mendicanti in castello venice.
In a low relief or bas relief basso relievo the design projects only slightly from the ground and there.
Two sided stone tool used as a multi purposes knife manufactured through a process of lithic reduction.
Lower paleolithic biface or hand axe.
In archaeology a biface is a two sided stone tool and is used as a multi purposes.
His mouth is open.
The peristyle gardens of roman houses and villas were filled with decorative marble reliefs such as this one.