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Fragments of the metopes of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Metopes, Reliefs, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Relief from the mouth of a well (puteale), from Ancient Corinth, depicting Athena and Heracles.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athens, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Heracles, Peloponnese, Reliefs

Relief from the mouth of a well (puteale), from Ancient Corinth, depicting Artemis and Apollo.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Reliefs

Relief from the mouth of a well (puteale), from Ancient Corinth.

Tags: Ancient Corinth, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Corinth, Corinthia, Greece, Peloponnese, Reliefs

The relief from the Lions' Gate in the Acropolis of Mycenae.

Tags: Argolis, Art and antiquities, Greece, Lion Gate (Mycenae), Mycenae, Mycenaean monuments, Peloponnese, Reliefs

Title page. Ancient relief, most possibly from the mouth of a well (puteale), depicting Heracles, Athena, Apollo and Artemis.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Apollo, Art and antiquities, Artemis, Athens, Greece, Heracles, Reliefs, Title page

Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Houses, Human types, Reliefs, Ruins

Capitals of Corinthian order and stele from Thebes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Corinthian order, Greece, Reliefs, Steles, Thebes (Greece), Votive steles

View of the quarries of Gebel el-Silsila, near Aswan.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Aswan / anc. Syene, Boats and ships, Egypt, Egyptian quarries, Gebel el-Silsila, Human types, Nile river, Pharaonic architecture, Pharaonic monuments, Quarries, Reliefs, Rivers, Views

Fig. 1. Part of stele from Bodrum (anc. Halicarnassus). This stele was most probably at the site of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Fig. 2. Metopes from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. These Metopes, on which scenes from the Amazonomachia are depicted, are some of the very few elements of the Mausoleum preserved today, because the locals used them to cover several parts of the sewer system. Inscription from the Castle of Halicarnassus, also know as Castle of Saint Paul.

Tags: Amazonomachy, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bodrum / Halicarnassus, Caria, Greek mythology, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Metopes, Reliefs, Steles, Turkey

Ancient reliefs from the island of Kos. On the first (left top), Zeus, Hera and Hercules. On the second (right top), Apollo with the Muses. On the third (bottom left), Hercules with the Lion of Nemea. On the fourth (bottom right), the contest of Apollo with the Satyr Marsyas.

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Dodecanese, Greece, Greek mythology, Islands, Kos, Reliefs

Im. 1: Capital found near Mount Behistun in Persia, possibly representing king Khosrau. 2: Reliefs of Mithridates II of Parthia and Gotarzes II from Behistun. 3: Reliefs framing the inscription of Darius I the Great (Behistun inscription) at Mount Behistun.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Behistun, Darius I, Gotarzes II of Parthia, Inscriptions, Kermanshah, Mithridates II of Parthia, Persia / Iran, Reliefs

Reliefs from the monument of Taq-e Bostan on the ouskirts of Kermanshah in Persia. Im. 1, 2: The king hunting deer and boars. 3: The coronation of shah Khosrau II, with the gigantic figure of the king mounted on his horse at the centre of the composition. 4: The coronation of Shapur III, with the king and his father, Shapur II.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Kermanshah, Persia / Iran, Reliefs, Taq-e Bostan

Relief and capital of column from Bunarbaşı, village, erroneously identified in the nineteenth-century with Troy.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Bunarbaşı / Pinarbasi, Reliefs

The Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos (Tower of the Winds) in Athens. Plan of the monument.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Europeans, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Human types, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Writers

Reliefs and funerary steles from Chios and Lesbos.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Chios, Funerary monuments, Greece, Islands of the Northeastern Aegean sea, Lesbos, Reliefs

Relief from Gytheio, most probably from the Temple of Nike.

Tags: Ancient gods / deities, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Greece, Gytheio, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Laconia, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Temple of Nike (Gytheion)

1. Relief from Gytheio. Warrior overcomes his enemy, probably an Amazon. 2. Base of ancient stele from Sparta 3. Ancient inscription from Sparta.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Greek alphabet, Gytheio, Inscriptions, Laconia, Peloponnese, Reliefs, Sparta, Steles

Antiquities from Cythera, which according to the author come from the Temples of Aphrodite.

Tags: Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Cythera, Funerary monuments, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionian islands, Islands, Reliefs, Sarcophagi, Temple of Aphrodite (Cythera)

A colossal vase near Limassol in Cyprus.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Animals, Art and antiquities, Cyprus, Dogs, Human types, Limassol, Natural environment, Ottomans, Oxen, Reliefs, Roman art, Social sphere and everyday life

View of the Castle of Bodrum, or Castle of Halicarnassus.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Bodrum / Halicarnassus, Caramania, Caria, Castle of Bodrum, Costume - Hats and headwear, Gulfs and bays, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Ottomans, Reliefs, Smoking, Social sphere and everyday life, Turkey, Walls

Reliefs from ancient Ialyssos. Funerary steles from the area of the Roman aqueduct at Rodini, Rhodes.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Dodecanese, Funerary steles, Greece, Reliefs, Rhodes, Rodini (Rhodes)

Relief of angel and coat of arms of Grand Master Émery d'Amboise, from D'Amboise Gate. Ottoman inscription from the same gate (“There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God."). Relief of Virgin with infant and coat of arms of Grand Master Pierre d'Aubusson, discovered in the Jewish quarter and kept at the Franciscan monastery in Rhodes. Coat of arms of the Knights Hospitaller from the medieval town. Latin inscription «In convertendo inimicum meum retrorsum infirmabuntur et peribunt a facie tua» (Psalms 9:3 “When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence”), referring to the siege of Rhodes by the Ottomans.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Coats of arms – Emblems, D'Amboise Gate (Rhodes), Dodecanese, Emery d'Amboise, Greece, Icons, Inscriptions, Medieval monuments, Medieval old town of Rhodes, Ottoman inscriptions, Ottoman monuments, Pierre d'Aubusson, Reliefs, Rhodes

Plans of the Temple of Rome and Augustus in Pula, Croatia. Elevation of the front.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Corinthian order, Croatia, Inscriptions, Pula / anc. Polai, Reliefs, Temple of Rome and Augustus (Pula)

The Monument of Philopappus, Athens

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Costume - Hats and headwear, Funerary monuments, Greece, Human types, Monument of Philopappus, Natural environment, Reliefs, Social sphere and everyday life

1. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Apollo and Demeter, at the necropolis of Furkia. 2. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Hermes and Pheme, at the necropolis of Furkia. 3. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing Ceres and Athena, at the necropolis of Furkia.4. Relief from entrance to a Roman Tomb, showing a priest, at the necropolis of Furkia. 5. Reconstructive drawing of building at Al Bara, near Aleppo. 6. Relief found at the entrance of the library of the Levant Company (or East Company) at Aleppo, Syria.

Tags: Al Bara, Aleppo, Ancient gods / deities, Arches, Art and antiquities, Demeter, Funerary monuments, Furkia, Hermes, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Levant Company, Libraries, Necropoleis, Necropolis of Furcia, Pheme, Reliefs, Roman monuments, Syria

1.View of the great altar at the Church of Saint Simeon Stylites, Syria. 2. Funerary stele from Hierapolis, near Aleppo, Syria. 3. Fragment of relief from Hierapolis.

Tags: Aleppo, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Byzantine monuments, Church of Saint Simeon Stylites / Qalaat Semaan / Deir Semaan (Syria), Euphrates river, Funerary monuments, Hierapolis, Reliefs, Rivers, Saint Simeon Stylites, Saints, Syria

1. Temple of Janus at Smyrna. 2. Great Circus at Smyrna. 3. Gate of the Castle of Smyrna. 4. Bay of Smyrna. 5. Chimaera.

Tags: Ancient stadiums, Ancient temples, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Gates, Gulf of Izmir, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Kadifekale / anc. Pagos, Maps, Plans and drawings, Reliefs, Temple of Homer (Smyrna), Temple of Ianus (Smyrna), Turkey

Relief showing a camel rider.

Tags: Animals, Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Camels, Reliefs, Troad, Turkey

Ι. The external mouldings of the Tower of the Winds. ΙΙ. A section of the uppermost of the three steps which form the basis or stereobata on which the building stands.

Tags: Apeliotes, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Horologion of Andronikos Kyrristos / Tower of the Winds (Athens), Plans and drawings, Reliefs

Relief of Pentheus attacked by Bacchantes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Greece, Reliefs

Bas-relief of the Muses.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Greece, Reliefs

Relief from Delphi.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Central Greece, Delphi, Greece, Reliefs

Metope from the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion).

Tags: Ancient agorae, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Reliefs, Sculptures, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

Metope from the Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion).

Tags: Ancient agorae, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Reliefs, Sculptures, Temple of Hephaestus (Theseion)

View of the funerary stele of Alxenor or Stele of Orchomenos.

Tags: Alxenor Stele / Stele of Orchomenos, Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Funerary steles, Greece, Orchomenus, Reliefs, Sculptures

Solar clock in the katholikon of Skripou Monastery.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Clocks, Greece, Monastery of Skripou (Orchomenos), Orchomenus, Reliefs

Reliefs from the base of the Obelisk of Theodosius I at the Hippodrome of Constantinople.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Byzantine monuments, Hippodrome of Constantinople / At Meydanı, Istanbul, Obelisk of Theodosius I, Reliefs, Thrace, Turkey

Relief showing Nike, today at the National Archeological Museum, Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Reliefs

The Nike Sandalizousa relief from the Temple of Athena Nike, today at the Acropolis Museum.

Tags: Acropolis Museum, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Greece, Nike Sandalizousa, Reliefs, Temple of Athena Nike (Acropolis)

Archaic metope, today at the Archeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete.

Tags: Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Art and antiquities, Crete, Greece, Heraklion, Reliefs

Relief showing the head of a bulls fom the Palace of Knossos, today at the Archeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete

Tags: Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Art and antiquities, Crete, Greece, Heraklion, Knossos, Minoan antiquities, Palace of Knossos, Palaces, Reliefs

The frieze of Temple A at Prinias (anc. Rizinia), today at the Archeological Museum of Heraklion, Crete.

Tags: Ancient temples, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Art and antiquities, Crete, Greece, Heraklion, Prinias / anc. Rizinia (Heraklion), Reliefs, Temple A (Prinias / Rizinia)

Reliefs from the sacrificial altar and portico of the ancient Egyptian labyrinth mentioned by Herodotus, near ancient Crocodilopolis (today Fayum).

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Fayum, Fayum / anc. Crocodilopolis -Arsinoe – Ptolemais Euergetis, Labyrinth of Herodotus, Reliefs

Relief with hieroglyphics from Giza.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian antiquities, Hieroglyphs, Reliefs

Ancient funerary and votive steles from Izmir.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Asia Minor, Funerary steles, Inscriptions, Ionia, Izmir / Smyrna, Lydia, Reliefs, Turkey

Modern Arms of the City of Girgenti, from a Bas-Relief in a Church near that city.

Tags: Agrigento, Art and antiquities, Italy, Reliefs, Sicily, Southern Italy

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