Marble: Did you mean...?

White marble door of the Hagia Sophia, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Istanbul, 25 February, 2026. The Marble Door (also known as “Gate of Heaven and Hell”) in Hagia Sophia’s south upper gallery marks the threshold...

Marble head of Titus Flavius Orestes, from Herakleia Lynkestis, near Bitola, North Macedonia, c. 1st-2nd century CE. Archaeological Museum of Heraclea, Bitola. The marble head was located in the colonnaded courthouse...

Marble altar sacred to Dushares Puteoli. 1st century CE. Museo dei Campo Flegrei, (National Maritime Museum, Sydney Australia). A beautiful piece of Italian Carrrara marble fashioned into an altar to Dushares...

A marble head of Polyphemus, perhaps part of a large-scale sculptural ensemble depicting the blinding of Polyphemos, similar to a group found in an imperial dining grotto at Sperlonga, south of Rome. Dated to about 150...

A marble head of a figurine from Iraq, 3rd Millennium BCE. (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology).

Catherine the Great in the guise of Minerva, marble statue by Fedot Shubin, 1789-1790. Russian Museum, St Petersburg.

This marble grave stele depicting a family group (from Attica, Greece) is dated to c. 360 BCE. It is now housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Marble herms. Athens Stone Sculpture Gallery, National Archaeological Museum of Greece, Athens.

An early 1st Century marble bust of Juba II (r. 29 BCE - 23 CE), king of Mauretania and husband of Cleopatra Selene II (40 - 5 BCE). The bust is in the Glyptotek Museum in Copenhagen.

A marble statue of Bes, the Egyptian god of childbirth, fertility, sexuality, humour, and war. 1st-2nd century CE. (Vatican Museums, Rome)