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Aurignacian Lion Man Sculpture
Upper Paleolithic (Aurignacian) sculpture of a lion man, made from mammoth ivory, c. 40,000 years ago. Found at the Stadel cave at Hohlenstein Rock in the Lone Valley, township of Asselfingen, Germany.
Museum of Ulm, Germany.
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Progenitrix Sculpture, Lepenski Vir
Progenitrix (Serbian Cyrillic: Прародитељка) is a sculpture dating back from c. 6300 – c. 5900 BCE found at Lepenski Vir (Serbia). Today, it is the symbol of Lepenski Vir. (Lepenski Vir Museum)
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Sasa Jataka Narrative Sculpture
Coping stone fragment depicting a scene from the Sasa Jataka, identified by the inscription at the top. Now housed at the Allahabad Museum, Allahabad, this narrative sculpture is about a story where the Bodhisattva is born as a rabbit and...
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Chinese Pig-Dragon Sculpture
A Chinese pig-dragon sculpture. China, probably Yunnan Province, Yuan dynasty, 1279-1368.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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Buddha Sculpture in Ajanta
A sculpture in Ajanta (between 2nd century BCE and 6th century CE) Cave 1 showcasing Buddha in dharma chakra pravartana mudra (preaching mode).
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Djenne-Djenno Sculpture
A terracotta sculpture of a male figure from Djenne-Djenno, Mali. 13th century CE (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
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Screen Sculpture, Chartres Cathedral
A detail of the sculpture which adorns the screen of the chancel of Chartres Cathedral, France. Executed from c. 1530 CE and slowly added to over the following two centuries, the screen has 40 niches containing large figure sculptures depicting...
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Khmer Feminine Divinity Sculpture
This Khmer sandstone sculpture represents a Hindu goddess in the Baphuon style. It comes from Preah Vihear, Preah Vihear in Cambodia and dates from the 11th century CE. (Musée Guimet, Paris)
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Adam Sculpture, Lepenski Vir
A quartz sandstone sculpture dating back from c. 6300 – c. 5900 BCE found at Lepenski Vir (Serbia). (Lepenski Vir Museum)
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Standing Taishaku Ten Sculpture
This sculpture dates from 10th-century CE Japan and is made of wood with polychrome. It depicts the deity Sakra Devanam Indra (or "Taishaku Ten" in Japanese). This deity may be traced back to Indra, a god of war in ancient India who was alted...