Bas-___ (3-D works of art)

Usage examples of reliefs.

Indeed, this was more than just imagination because Osiris was physically present in the astonishing symphony of reliefs that adorned the walls—reliefs that depicted the once and future civilizer-king in his role as god of the dead, enthroned and attended by Isis, his beautiful and mysterious sister.

She was impressed by the quality of the reliefs, and declared that the false door would make a splendid watercolor.

A block of solid granite about four feet thick, its sides bore reliefs of four men wearing curious head-dresses.

Neither the negro heads, nor the reliefs portraying bearded Caucasian men showed any signs of anything remotely Phoenician in their style, handiwork or character.

In Mexico, on the other hand (as also seems to have been the case in Peru), they suffered some serious setback—perhaps getting off to a good start, when the gigantic stone heads and reliefs of bearded men were made, but going rapidly downhill.

At Monte Alban, in Oaxaca province hundreds of kilometres to the southwest, archaeologists had apparently unearthed ‘Olmecoid’ artefacts and a number of reliefs thought to represent the Olmecs themselves.

Because of it, we will never learn the significance of the many sculptures, inscriptions, reliefs and artefacts that had almost certainly been removed with those twenty feet of the outer shell.

It had an undeniable aesthetic impact upon me (admittedly a heavy and domineering one), but it was also completely devoid of decorative features and of anything (figures of deities, reliefs of liturgical texts, and so on) which might be suggestive of worship or religion.

Crowns similar to these in many respects had been important parts of the wardrobe of all the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, at least on the evidence of reliefs depicting them.

My distinguished spouse was one of the first to establish the principles of modern excavation: precise measurements, accurate copies of all inscriptions and reliefs, innumerable photographs, and the thorough sifting of the debris.

Many of the reliefs he copied have now disappeared, worn away by weather or vandalized by thieves, nor are the copies as accurate as one would wish.

After discovering that the interior walls were covered with remarkably well-preserved painted reliefs, he had insisted on erecting a temporary roof over the chamber.

I stopped for a moment to gloat over the painted reliefs, for they were really lovely.

There were some fine reliefs and another false door, but that was not what caught my eye.

The final version incorporated not only the reliefs but every scratch and abrasion on the surface.