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Ife Head Sculpture
A sculpture from Ife, capital of the kingdom of Ife (11-15th century CE) in what is today southern Nigeria. Painted plaster cast of a brass original. Height: 35.5 centimetres. 14th to early 15th century CE. (Brtish Museum, London)

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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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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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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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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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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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Etruscan 'Evening Shadow' Figure Sculpture
The Etruscan bronze figure sculpture of a young boy known as the Ombre della Sera or 'Evening Shadow'. 3rd century BCE. Height: 57 cm. (Museo Etrusco Guarnacci, Volterra, Italy)

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Nabataean Relief Sculpture of Atargatis
Stone sculpture of Atargatis (Ataratheh), the Syrian goddess of fertility in Classical antiquity, from the entrance of a Nabataean temple in modern-day southern Jordan. The Kingdom of Nabatea became prosperous and wealthy through trade with...

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Roman Sculpture of an African Acrobat
This marble sculpture from Rome, Italy dates to sometime between the 1st Century BCE and the 1st Century CE. It portrays a young male Aethiopian, or black African, acrobat balancing on a crocodile. (British Museum, London)

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Crazy Horse Sculpture
Crazy Horse Sculpture by Polish-American artist Korczak Ziółkowski (l. 1908-1982), the model for his large-scale Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills.