Ancient Sculptures and Artifacts

Fragments and statues from ancient cultures, displaying humanity's early artistic expressions in stone and terracotta materials.

Close_up of carving, Vinca culture, Belgrade Museum, Serbia, Europe

Terracotta sculpture of the legendry sculptor Himmat Shah Master piece of Indian art clay Editorial use only Copyright: xRavixShekhar/DinodiaxPhotox

fragment of a naked young man, Iberian sculpture from the 4th century BC, heroic sanctuary Cerro de El Pajarillo, Huelma, Iberian Museum of Jaén, Andalusia, Spain.

Statue head. Period of Amenhotep III. Limestone. C.1390-1352 BC. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark.

Close_up of carving, Vinca culture, Belgrade Museum, Serbia, Europe

SARCOFAGO MASCULINO EN ALABASTRO ENCONTRADO EN 1887 EN LA NECROPOLIS DE CABEZA DE VACA-HACIA 400 AC. Location: MUSEO DE CADIZ-ARQUEOLOGIA. Cadiz. SPAIN.

Person covering their face with plaster, Pompeii Museum, Naples

Plaster cast of a human found at excavation, Pompeii, Italy, Plaster cast of a human found at excavation, Pompeii, Italy, Europe, landscape format, horizontal, Europe

male protome, from Monte Sirai, clay, 6th-5th cent. BCE, Cagliari Museo arqueologico nazionale, The Coliseum , Rome, Lazio, Italy ,.

SPAIN - Bahía y Costa de la Luz (district) - ANDALUSIA - Cadiz. Archeological Museum; fenician sarcophagus (s. V a.c.)

DETALLE DE LA ESTATUA YACENTE DEL CABALLERO DE MALTA - SIGLO XVI (CONJUNTO Nº 38413). Author: ANONIMO SIGLO XVI. Location: MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES-PALACIO ABARCA. SALAMANCA. SPAIN.

Melanchthon bust in Melanchthon Haus Wittenberg von Wolfram Spitzer, Bronze 1982

Aztec, Mexico, Templo Mayor

Heads of helmeted warriors; Marble found near the Temple of Aphaia. 490 BC

Monographic Museum of Pollentia, Alcudia, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.

Statuette of a Lion, 380-246 BC. Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 30 or later. Limestone; overall: 13.8 x 12 cm (5 7/16 x 4 3/4 in.).

Mummy of a young man. Ptolemaic or Roman period, after 305 BC. From Thebes. Egypt. British Museum. London. UK.

SILLERIA DEL CORO-DET DE POSA MANOS-CABEZA DE LEON-MUDEJAR. Location: CONVENTO DE SANTA CLARA. Moguer. Huelva. SPAIN.

National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

Lisbon, Portugal. Antique Asian marionettes. (Editorial Use Only)

Italy, Lazio, Rome, Villa Borghese, Villa Giulia, sarcophagus degli Sposi.

Mummy. Old Kingdom. 4th-5th Dynasty (2543-2305 BC). Gebelein. Egypt. Museum of Turin. Italy.

Terracottas. Clay. 4th-3rd century BC. Necropolis of Puig des Molins, Ibiza, Spain. National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Spain.

Ka-aper lcalled 'Sheikh El-Beled'. ca. 2465 BC. Detail of the head. Work also known as 'The Headman of the Village', though his real activity was priest assistant. Sycamore wood. Egyptian art. Old Kingdom. Sculpture on wood. EGYPT. CAIRO. Cairo. Egyptian Museum. Proc: EGYPT. CAIRO. Saqqara.

Red granite standing figure of an 18th Dynasty king, ca 1450 BC, Karnack

Denmark, Jutland, Aarhus-Hojbjerg, Moesgard Museum, Grauballe Man, preserved remains of human from 1st century BC

Portrait of unknown lady. Bust. Mid-second 1st century AD. Antoninus Pius era. Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Tarragona. Catalonia, Spain.

San Lorenzo Maggiore Museum, Naples, Italy

Germany, Munich, Sculptures in art foundry

SPAIN - Bahía y Costa de la Luz (district) - ANDALUSIA - Cadiz. Archeological Museum; fenician sarcophagus (s. V a.c.)

Centaur kidnapping a young woman. Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs. Decoration of the Temple of Zeus in the Sanctuary of Olympia. 5th century B.C. Parian marble. West pediment. Dated in 460 B.C. Olympia Archaeological Museum. Greece.

Clay figure

Mask in progress, Old Massett, Haida Gwaii, formerly known as Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada

A Qing-era guardian lion with paw on baby lion, Forbidden City; Beijing; China, Asia

'Fountain Statue 'Sleeping Silenus''. Ancient Greece, 2-1 century BC. Dimensions: l. 59 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

ESTATUA DEL REY AKENATON O AMENOFIS IV- 1375 AC. Location: EGYPTIAN MUSEUM. KAIRO. EGYPT.

Etruscan art. Sarcophagus of the spouses. 6th century BC. Necropolis of Banditaccia, Cerveteri, Italy. Clay. Detail man head. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

FIGURAS VOTIVAS DE BRONCE DEL COLLADO DE LOS JARDINES-JAEN-ESCULTURA IBERICA. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Mummy with a portrait of a woman from Fayum; Egypt; Roman 100 AD

Gilded encaustic mummy mask from a coffin. Roman-Egyptian, Fayum, Egypt. 60 AD

Naum GABO, 1967, blue marble, Casa Milà-La Pedrera, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

ESTATUA LIBERTAD - MUSEO - REPLICA DE LA CARA DE LA ESTATUA. Location: EXTERIOR. NEW YORK.

Etruscan Art. Italy. Terracotta pedimental decoration in high relief from Tivoli. Fragmentary figure. Late 4 th - 3rd. Century B.C. Gregorian Etruscan Museum. Vatican Museums. Vatican City.

Olmec, Ancient Cultures, The Americas, jade, Ceremony, National Museum of Anthropology and History, Mexico City, Mexico, La Venta Site

Reliquary bust of Saint Cordula, 1351. Tortosa Cathedral. Museum: CATEDRAL DE TORTOSA.

Europe, France, Maine et Loire, Fontevraud, Notre Dame Abbey

Scotland, Isle of Lewis. Stornoway Museum, The Lewis Chessmen, famous Nordic12th century medieval ivory chess pieces (queen) found on Lewis in 1831.

Mummy and Coffin of Tasheriteniset, Ptolemaic Period, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, New York City, USA, North America

National Museum of Ancient Art. The Archangel Saint Michel. 15th century. Polychrome limestone.

Egyptian art. Seated Scribe. Old Kingdom. 2620-2500 BC. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

Italy

Exhibition: classical antiquity in Andalusia, Hospital of the Venerables, Seville, Region of Andalusia, Spain, Europe.

TESORO TUTANKAMON-ESCULTURA-TUTANKAMON DURMIENTE. Location: EGYPTIAN MUSEUM. KAIRO. EGYPT.

Ancient Egyptian mummy in wrappings. Vatican Museum

Detail of an original Egyptian sarcophagus

Interior of Pre Colombian Museum of Santiago, Chile

Effects of Bad Government in the City, by Lorenzetti Ambrogio, 1338 - 1339, 14th Century, fresco. Italy, Tuscany, Siena, Palazzo Pubblico, Sala della Pace, west wall. Detail. Scene extortion red white light blue: azure dark: brown shades: hues: tones beige.

Inland Niger Delta Seated Figure. Mali, 13th century, Terracotta. Some of the oldest sculptures from West Africa come from the area known as the Inland Delta of the Niger River, near the present-day homes of the Dogon and Bamana peoples.

Low angle view of Moai statues, Rano Raraku, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island, Chile

Toronto, ON, Canada - November 20, 2022: Greek statues in the Royal Ontario Museum

Relief depicting Hercules, detail of a Viergoetterstein (four-god stone) of a Jupiter Column, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Roman civilization, 2nd-3rd century AD.

Plaster cast of a victim of the volcanic eruption in Pompeii near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania.

Boxers and Antelope Frescoes, Akrotiri, Thera. The Bronze Age frescoes from Akrotiri on the Aegean island of Thera (modern-day Santorini) provide some of the most famous images from the ancient Greek world. Sometime between 1650 and 1550 BCE Thera suffered a devastating earthquake which destroyed the town

Six Figures: Large Cult, New Guinea, Yipwon, New Guinea, Head from A Karawari Ancient Cult Figure Primitive Art Christie's Images, London

male statuettes, from Byblos, bronze, middle bronze Age, Beirut National Museum, The Coliseum , Rome, Lazio, Italy ,.

France, Paris. Illustration of daily life. Photograph by Martin Bertrand.France, Paris. Illustration de vie quotidienne. Photographie de Martin Bertrand.

Pere Joan / Mother of God of the cloister (detail), XV century, Sculpture, Monastery of Vallbona de las Nunes, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.

Grabstatue Funerary statue, Middle Empire of Egypt, 11th dynasty, 2000 BC, polychrome ebony wood, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 22897144

Peru, Lima. Inca portrait vase at the National Museum of Archeoligy, Anthropology and History of Peru.

Decorative figure of a Turk from a Spanish Ship 18th Century

Colossus of Ramses II from the ancient city of Memphis, Cairo, Egypt (Editorial Usage Only)

Ivory female figurines. Ancient Egyptian, Early Middle Predynastic, 4400-3900 BC, British museum, London, England, Great Britain.

Young man. From the Aztec culture. From Mexico, made from volcanic rock.

Mastaba of Irukaptah. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom. East Wall. Statues of the Irukaptah's family. Saqqara. Egypt. Saqqara. Egypt.

Bronze statuette of Hercules, Hellenistic period, Archaeological Museum, Corfu Town, Corfu Island, Ionian Islands, Greece, Europe

Sir Henry Spencer Moore (July 30, 1898 - August 31, 1986) with an original cast of one of his sculptures, Much Hadham, 1970. Moore was an English-born artist and sculptor, known for his modernist, abstract works.

LA PURISIMA S XVII-DETALLE QUERUBINES - ESCULTURA BARROCA-MADERA POLICROMADA. Author: GREGORIO FERNANDEZ. Location: CONVENTO DE LAS CLARISAS / MUSEO DE ARTE SACRO. MONFORTE DE LEMOS. LUGO. SPAIN.

Bust of Benjamin Franklin in the Franklin Science Institute, a science museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Volterra Tuscany Italy. Guarnacci Museum of Etruscan Artifacts. Cinerary Urns Volterra Tuscany Italy. Guarnacci Museum of Etruscan Artifacts. Cinerary Urns Copyright: xZoonar.com/MarcoxBriviox 21890509

Massachusetts, New Bedford, New Bedford Whaling Museum, scrimshaw art, etching on whale bone

Prehistory, Malta, Neolithic. Large stone slab decorated with spiral reliefs. From Tarxien megalithic temple.

Phoenician culture. 700-601 BC. On the left, Priest of Cadiz. Bronze and gold. From Cadiz, Andalusia. On the right, Male figure standing. Bronze. From Extremadura, Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Tribal art, Juneau Museum, Alaska, USA, 2011.

medieval and renaissance galleries at the v&a muesum london muma architects statues in the dark noble living gallery

Scotland, Glasgow, South Side, Burrell Collection, Greek and Roman antiquities room.

Europe, The Netherlands, Holland, Amsterdam. Het Scheepvaartmuseum. National Maritime Museum. Exhibit to the Golden Age. Gilded decoration on the prow of a boat. Statue of Neptune, god of the sea.

Mummy of Merenptah, detail

Tourists view Terracotta warriors on display in the Shaanxi History Museum, Xian, China

Close up of an Egyptian seated scribe model. Artist: Unknown

Cypriot culture. Group of archaic sculptures. 6th-3rd BC century. Heads. Donation of T.P. Yuzefovich. From Cyprus. The Odessa Archeological Museum. Odessa. Ukraine.

Antiquarium. Small museum with remains of city of Pompeii after the Vesuvius eruption. Inside view. Pottery and plaster casts of human body. Pompeii. Italy.

Reliquary statue of Ste. Foy, dating from 7th to 9th centuries and renovated in the 10th century, Treasury of Ste. Foy, Conques, Midi_Pyrenees, France...

England, London, British Museum. Mummy Of A Cat. Abydos, Upper Egypt

Double Face by Pablo Picasso, 1952, 1881-1973

France, Alsace, Strasbourg, Rohan palace, archaeological Museum

Vietnam: Wooden sculpture, Jarai tomb, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi.

ARTE PRECOLOMBINO. MIXTECA. CALAVERA MIXTECA con mosaico turquesa incrustado. Pieza del Tesoro de la Tumba nº 7 de Monte Albán. Actualmente en el Museo Regional de Oaxaca. México.

Egyptian art. External wood sarcophagus. It belonged to a high priest of Amun. Twenty-second Dynasty. Descendent from Meshwest immigrants, originally from Ancient Libya. Odessa Archeological Museum. Odessa, Ukraine.

"MI HERMANO MARCELO" ESCULTURA-SU HERMANO YACENTE- CRIPTA CASA MUSEO. Author: VICTORIO MACHO ROGADO (1887-1966). Location: MUSEO VICTORIO MACHO. Toledo. SPAIN.

Royal Armory. Interior. National Museum of Capodimonte. Naples. Italy.

Detail of silver-gilt figures. Waddesdon Bequest Gallery at the British Museum, London, United Kingdom. Architect: Stanton Williams, 2015.

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