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Marble pilaster capitals from the Pantheon in Rome

These marble capitals come from the interior of the Pantheon…
Bust of Antinous

Antinous was Greek and born in Mantineum, a small place near…
Marble relief figure of Sarasvati

Although she is better known as a Hindu goddess, Sarasvati's…
Marble beaker

This marble beaker was made in the earliest period of the pr…
Marble bust of an old man

The bust shows an old man, clean-shaven and with closely-cro…
Marble relief with two theatre masks

This finely carved marble relief shows a tragic and a comic …
Marble sarcophagus with lid

The sarcophagus is rectangular in shape and the lid is in th…
Marble statuette of a woman

Small scale statuettes became extremely popular during the H…
Stone vase, known as a kandila

The Early Bronze Age inhabitants of the Cyclades used their …
Grey and white marble jar

This marble jar was discovered in the burial of 'Queen' Pu-a…
Kilga, support for a water jar

Marble kilga were designed to hold a large zir (jar) of ungl…
Marble panel from the cenotaph of Muhammad b. Fatik Ashmuli

The panel would have been at the head of a four-sided open c…
White marble anthropoid coffin

This white marble coffin is typical of a large number found …
Marble figure of Anne Seymour Damer by Giuseppe Ceracchi

Anne Seymour Conway (1749-1828) was the daughter of Field Ma…
Marble portrait bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, by Joseph Wilton

Philip Dormer Stanhope (1694-1773), fourth earl of Chesterfi…
Marble transenna with eagles and hares

A transenna is a large slab that formed part of a marble scr…
Marble bust of the emperor Hadrian wearing military dress

This portrait bust was found at the Villa Adriana, the Roman…
Marble figure of a victorious athlete

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Marble figure of the Buddha Amitabha

Although Buddhism spread throughout China, it was a foreign …
Marble pillar from a Jain temple

This stone pillar is typical of those sculpted for the many …
Marble statue of a tirthankara

The Indian faith of Jainism arose at approximately the same …
Caryatid from the Erechtheion

Caryatids are female figures serving as supports. The most l…
Chariot group from the south frieze of the Parthenon

The Parthenon frieze shows racing chariots ahead of the cava…
Colossal marble statue of Apollo

This colossal marble statue came from the Temple of Apollo a…
Colossal statue of a man from the Mausoleum at Halikarnassos

This is the best preserved of the colossal dynastic figures …
Fragment of a marble shield

The Parthenon in Athens was built about 447-438 BC to house …
Marble block from the west frieze of the Temple of Athena Nike

The Ionic Temple of Athena Nike was completed in the late 42…
Marble bust of a girl

The girl is shown dressed in a Greek-style chiton covered by…
Marble bust of Trajan

The bust, one of many issued to commemorate the emperor Traj…
Marble cinerary urn of Vernasia Cyclas

The urn contained the ashes of Vernasia Cyclas, and was comm…
Marble figurine of a woman

The Early Bronze Age inhabitants of the Cyclades made marble…
Marble figurine of a woman

This unusually large Cycladic 'folded-arm' figurine is very …
Marble frieze slab from the Nereid Monument

This slab comes from a frieze on the base of the Nereid Monu…
Marble frieze slab from the Nereid Monument

The podium of the Nereid Monument enclosed the burial chambe…
Marble frieze slab with horse and groom

In this relief slab from a frieze a large horse almost conce…
Marble grave monument for a dead youth

This grave stone (stele) is more likely to have been discove…
Marble head of a companion of Odysseus

This marble head with its very distinctive attitude and expr…
Marble head of a kore (maiden)

Two of the most distinctive forms of free-standing sculpture…
Marble head of a woman

This female face is one of the most beautiful of the survivi…
Marble inscription with damnatio memoriae of Geta, son of Septimius Severus

The inscription was dedicated by Antonius, a libertus or fre…
Marble portrait bust of Homer

Homer is thought to have lived in Greece around 750 to 700 B…
Marble portrait bust of Perikles

Perikles (died 429 BC) led the democracy of Athens at the he…
Marble portrait of a young boy as a worshipper of Isis

The boy's hairstyle suggests he was a worshipper of Isis, th…
Marble portrait of an unknown man

The Hellenistic period saw the rise of the private portrait,…
Marble portrait of Tiberius

The head, set into a modern bust, shows the image of the fut…
Marble portrait statue of a veiled woman

Full-length portraits of women made during the Roman era oft…
Marble relief of Jason the physician and patient

Greek medicine continued to thrive under the Roman Empire. T…
Marble relief with female gladiators

According to several contemporary eye-witnesses, women also …
Marble relief with lion and gladiator

Wild animals ( bestiae ) were used in a variety of entertain…
Marble sarcophagus with a Bacchic scene

The size of this sarcophagus indicates that it was probably …
Marble statue of a charioteer

This marble figure, with its air of quiet dignity, can be id…
Marble statue of a kore (girl) holding a bird

This kore (maiden) wears a chiton (tunic) belted under t…
Marble statue of a Roman priestess

The statue, carved from a slab of Carrara marble, shows the …
Marble statue of a woman

Excavations on the Acropolis at Xanthos have revealed the fo…
Marble statue of a woman seated in a chair

Many statues were found along the Sacred Way of the Temple o…
Marble statue of the emperor Septimius Severus

'It is good to see the statue of Septimius Severus, the firs…
Marble statue of the spinario

This figure type, known as the spinario or thorn-puller, is …
Part of a marble sculpture of two boys fighting over a game of knucklebones

This sculpture represents a boy biting the limb of his oppon…
Relief dedicated to the Thracian goddess Bendis

The goddess Bendis originated in Thrace, to the north of Gre…
Relief from the Nereid Monument

The upper walls of the Nereid Monument were crowned with a f…
Sculptured marble plinth

This carved square plinth comes from the later Temple of Art…
The Strangford Apollo

Kouros in Greek means simply 'youth'. It is a term used to d…
The Townley Vase

What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad purs…
Torso of a statue of a nude kouros (youth)

This marble torso was found in the dromos (entrance passage)…
Upper part of a marble male figure

The back part of the head, chest, right shoulder and arm of …
'Violin' figurine

Throughout the Early Bronze Age in the Cyclades (approximate…
Dolomite (magnesian limestone) cylinder seal

This is a typical seal of the late third millennium BC where…
Stone mace head

This elaborate marble mace head was discovered in the remain…

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