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Limestone sculpture of an ibex

During the first millennium BC and into the Roman period a p…
Limestone gravestone

Coptic gravestones vary widely in size, and this is one of t…
Mummy portrait of a woman

This portrait was attached to an Egyptian-style mummy, and a…
Limestone cinerary urn in the form of seated man

This limestone figure of a seated man was used as an urn to …
Limestone cippus with relief showing musicians

This is one side of a limestone cippus , or marker, which wo…
Limestone female figure

The size and style of this ungainly figure is unusual for th…
Painted limestone stele showing a boy with a pigeon

The boy stands in three-quarter view to the left, his right …
Limestone cup

This limestone cup dates to the late fourth millennium BC wh…
Limestone cylinder seal

This limestone cylinder seal was found by the excavator Leon…
Limestone figure of a bull

This stone figure was made in the late fourth millennium BC,…
Limestone figurine

The southern Arabians had a monopoly on two of the most priz…
Limestone funerary portrait of a priest

Palmyra, a city in the Syrian desert, grew rich from the car…
Limestone memorial bust of Tamma

The inscription names this woman as Tamma, daughter of Shams…
Limestone relief of the god Shadrafa

This relief is one of the earliest dated monuments found at …
Stone cult vessel

This stone vessel dates to the late fourth millennium BC, wh…
Stone relief showing a funerary banquet

Palmyra, an oasis city in the Syrian desert, grew rich from …
Jacob van Ruisdael, View in Alkmaar with the Grote Kerk, a drawing

The drawing in black chalk with grey wash shows the street b…
Michelangelo and pupil, Girl with a spindle, a black chalk drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was not known as a great teacher. H…
Michelangelo, Ideal head of a woman, a black chalk drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) created sophisticated studies of pr…
Michelangelo, Studies after the Codex Coner and Studies after the Codex Coner and for the façade of San Lorenzo, red cha

After a period of living in Rome, the artist Michelangelo (1…
Michelangelo, Studies for a double wall tomb and Studies for a double tomb, black chalk drawings

Michelangelo (1475-1564) made these dynamic designs for an u…
Michelangelo, Studies for Haman, a red chalk drawing

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was commissioned to paint the Sisti…
Rembrandt van Rijn, An Elephant, a drawing

This is one of several drawings by Rembrandt of female eleph…
Samuel Palmer, Eclogue III: 'Tis Gentle Phillis', black chalk and brown ink, heightened with white gouac

Samuel Palmer (1805-81) was one of Britain's greatest artist…
Samuel Palmer, View at Tintagel, black chalk, watercolour and gouache on off-white wove paper

Samuel Palmer (1805-81) was one of Britain's greatest artist…
Colossal limestone bust of Amenhotep III

Amenhotep III commissioned hundreds of sculptures for his mo…
Fragment of painted plaster from the tomb of Sebekhotep

As a senior treasury official of the reign of Thutmose IV (1…
Limestone block from the pyramid of Khufu

The largest pyramids of Egypt were constructed at Giza in th…
Limestone false door of Kaihap

Kahihap was a minor official, though his titles rather grand…
Limestone fragment with the head of a king

The artistic style of the Amarna Period (1390-1327 BC) is di…
Limestone head of an official

This head has many similarities with those of the reign of A…
Limestone model of a town house

This model shows us what an ancient Egyptian house might hav…
Limestone ostrakon showing a woman suckling a child

The term ostrakon is used to describe a flake of limestone t…
Limestone ostrakon showing Ramesses IX with a prince and a vizier

This ostrakon is quite large; most ostraka from Thebes are…
Limestone relief showing Mentuhotep II embraced by Montu

The god Montu was probably the original supreme local deity …
Limestone shabti figure of King Ahmose

Shabti , or funerary figurines buried with the deceased, fir…
Limestone shabti of a priestess

This fine limestone shabti shows the tomb owner in a mummifi…
Limestone shabti of the official escort Renseneb

Though buried in their local town, some ancient Egyptians, l…
Limestone statue of a hawk-headed sphinx

In Greek mythology the Sphinx was a beast with a woman's hea…
Limestone statue of the steward Mery

Mery is shown on a cuboid seat, with his feet resting on a p…
Limestone statuette of a priest holding an offering table

This statuette is remarkable for the bright appearance of th…
Limestone stela of Heqaib

Abydos was the principal cult centre of Osiris . From the Ol…
Limestone stela of Nefer

The stone stelae placed before the tombs of the kings at Aby…
Limestone stela with three figures of Bes

Bes was very prominent in the religious concerns of the ordi…
List of the kings of Egypt from the Temple of Ramesses II

The chronology of the rulers of Egypt is based on many sourc…
Ostrakon of The Tale of Sinuhe

The eight lines of hieratic on one side of this ostrakon are…
Ostrakon showing a baboon eating

This is a particularly fine example of a figured ostrakon ,…
Painted limestone ancestor bust

Around a hundred examples of this type of small bust have be…
Painted limestone model of a house

Model houses like this were included in Egyptian tombs to pr…
Painted limestone statue of Nenkheftka

This statue comes from Nenkheftka's tomb at Deshasha. Free-s…
Painted limestone statue of Nynofretmin

Egyptian statues of the Old Kingdom (about 2613-2160 BC) wer…
Relief from the mastaba of Werirenptah

In the early years of the twentieth century, museums in Euro…
Relief showing two royal figures

In addition to the human figures at the right of this object…
Shabti of Qeniherkhepeshef

Shabti figures of the New Kingdom (about 1550-1070 BC) were …
Stela fragment of Horiraa

The surviving hieroglyphic inscription on this funerary stel…
Stela of Inheretnakht

The artistic output of the Old Kingdom (about 2613-2160 BC) …
The 'crossword' stela of Paser

The frieze at the top of this limestone stela shows a line o…
Black limestone mask

This stone mask, found in the Basin of Mexico, displays a wi…
Limestone figure of an old man and boy

Stone sculptures of elderly figures are a recurring theme in…
Fragment of a limestone pillar

Four faces of this pillar carry carvings, with motifs well-e…
Limestone drum slab with carving on two sides

This relief has been carved on both sides at different times…
Limestone relief panel depicting a chakravartin

A chakravartin stands in the centre of the panel with his ha…
Limestone roundel depicting the Mandhata jataka

This roundel is one of the finest reliefs from Amaravati in …
Limestone roundel depicting the worship of a reliquary

This roundel comes from one of the crossbars that connected …
Limestone head of a bearded worshipper

A large number of limestone statuettes dating to about 610-5…
Limestone reliefs showing two men leading a horse

This pair of limestone reliefs, which probably come from a t…
Limestone statue of a bearded worshipper

Cypriot sculptors in the Iron Age worked either in terracott…
Limestone statue of a female worshipper playing a lyre

The female worshipper wears a chiton girded just below her b…

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