The masks of a young maenad and a bearded silenus are carved on one side in high relief.
Marble two sided relief.
Aphrodite is seated opposite consulting with her son eros at the center who holds the scales made from a separate piece of marble to determine how long persephone will stay in the underworld.
His mouth is open.
This is a marble two sided relief originating from rome and carved in the imperial period in the 1st century a d.
The masks of a young maenad and bearded silenus are carved on the one side in high relief.
A shepherd s crook known in antiquity as a pedum and two cymbals rest between them.
In a low relief or bas relief basso relievo the design projects only slightly from the ground and there.
On the reverse in flat relief and in a sunken panel are two satyr masks in profile facing each other.
Description a three sided relief cut from a single block.
This is a decorative marble relief from a peristyle garden of a roman house or villa.
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A marble relief adorning the facade of the fondamenta dei mendicanti in castello venice.
Venice marble relief detail art sculpture venice.
A shepherd s crook known in antiquity as a pedum and two cymbals rest between them.
The double sided relief has a crack that runs down.
Seated on the right is demeter with her head veiled in mourning for her daughter persephone.
Marble two sided relief 1st century a d.
The masks of a young maenad and a bearded silenus are carved on one side in high relief.
Marble two sided relief roman 1st century ad peristyle garden rome.
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Lower paleolithic biface or hand axe.
Marble two sided relief roman 1st century ad peristyle garden rome.
A shepherd s crook known in antiquity as a pedum and two cymbals rest between them.
The double sided mithraic relief is an example of a bas relief which means that rather than creating a three dimensional sculpture.
The peristyle gardens of roman houses and villas were filled with decorative marble reliefs such as this one.
B c in national museum greece.
The satyr mask on the right has the horns of a goat.
The peristyle gardens of roman houses and villas were filled with decorative marble reliefs such as this one.
The relief was most likely used for decorative purposes and may have been placed in one of the mithraeum s or places of worship.
Marble votive relief of bearded dionysus 1st c.
The satyr mask on the left is shown with ram s horns and above a basket.
In archaeology a biface is a two sided stone tool and is used as a multi purposes.
This double sided mithraic relief made of marble dates back to the 2nd or 3rd century ce and was created by the ancient romans.