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    Relief (redirect from Reliefs)
    be simply added to or raised up from the background. Monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting. There are different degrees of relief depending on...
    33 KB (4,006 words) - 19:06, 14 July 2024
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    Naqsh-e Rostam (category Rock reliefs in Iran)
    Persepolis, in Fars Province, Iran. A collection of ancient Iranian rock reliefs are cut into the face of the mountain and the mountain contains the final...
    22 KB (1,814 words) - 21:20, 11 June 2024
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    and which is located not far from the Behistun reliefs at Sarpol-e Zahab, is very similar to the reliefs at Behistun. The attitude of the ruler, the trampling...
    29 KB (2,980 words) - 08:54, 30 July 2024
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    rather small stone reliefs of Gandharan art, beginning in the 1st century BC and continuing for several centuries. These reliefs probably reflected subjects...
    77 KB (9,417 words) - 03:39, 1 July 2024
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    rock reliefs of Iran. They are located in Kermanshah Province. These reliefs are thought to have influenced the later Achaemenid Behistun reliefs, about...
    79 KB (10,128 words) - 00:38, 1 August 2024
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    Veyselli rock reliefs are a series of four rock reliefs in Erdemli district of Mersin Province, Turkey. The reliefs are in the rural area between the...
    1 KB (133 words) - 14:06, 27 November 2021
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    574 people attended. The palace walls were lined with reliefs carved in alabaster. These reliefs bore elaborate carvings, many portraying the king surrounded...
    24 KB (2,688 words) - 13:40, 27 June 2024
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    The Lachish reliefs are a set of Assyrian palace reliefs narrating the story of the Assyrian victory over the kingdom of Judah during the siege of Lachish...
    9 KB (963 words) - 02:34, 19 June 2024
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    architecture, reliefs and metalwork, and there are some surviving paintings from what was evidently a widespread production. Stone reliefs were probably...
    28 KB (3,522 words) - 11:54, 13 July 2024
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    Yazılıkaya (category Rock reliefs in Turkey)
    city of the Hittite Empire, today in the Çorum Province, Turkey. Rock reliefs are a prominent aspect of Hittite art, and these are generally regarded...
    6 KB (698 words) - 18:56, 10 August 2024
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    Borobudur (section Reliefs)
    Borobudur has one of the world's most extensive collections of Buddhist reliefs. Built during the reign of the Sailendra Dynasty, the temple design follows...
    100 KB (10,909 words) - 06:49, 25 July 2024
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    century AD, copying, adapting or closely following the style shown in reliefs and statues of the Classical (5th–4th centuries BC) and Archaic (6th century...
    3 KB (322 words) - 11:54, 1 April 2024
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    Taq-e Bostan (category Rock reliefs in Iran)
    تاق وەسان, lit. 'Arch of stone') is a site with a series of large rock reliefs from the era of the Sassanid Empire of Persia (Iran), carved around the...
    13 KB (1,033 words) - 06:08, 14 June 2024
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    use of the agal and ghutra is dated through antiquities including bas-reliefs and statues going back to ancient times. The agal is traced in Semitic...
    3 KB (332 words) - 04:56, 10 August 2024
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    dedicated to Constantine, much of the sculptural decoration consists of reliefs and statues removed from earlier triumphal monuments dedicated to Trajan...
    39 KB (4,435 words) - 14:38, 1 August 2024
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    Sarpol-e Zahab (category Rock reliefs in Iran)
    more or less well preserved reliefs of the Lullubi kingdom, as well as a Parthian relief. The most famous of these reliefs is the Anubanini rock relief...
    10 KB (639 words) - 01:37, 14 June 2024
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    walls and decorations carved as bas-reliefs. The walls of andesite was then carved with exquisite narrative bas-reliefs, which can be observed in many temples...
    65 KB (7,571 words) - 16:31, 8 August 2024
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    admired for the grandeur and harmony of the architecture, its extensive bas-reliefs and devatas adorning its walls. The Angkor area was designated as a UNESCO...
    70 KB (7,470 words) - 10:21, 8 August 2024
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    horizontal railings. These reliefs are among the first known examples of Jain sculpture. The centaurs appearing in the Mathura reliefs, as in other places such...
    11 KB (969 words) - 13:52, 31 December 2023
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    Rock relief (redirect from Rock reliefs)
    use them to define an image, but they do not amount to man-made reliefs. Rock reliefs have been made in many cultures throughout human history, and were...
    33 KB (4,366 words) - 12:34, 23 June 2023
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