The " Justice fountain " ( Gerechtskeitbrunnen ) was built in 1634, and is made of French limestone ; it includes a statue of Lady Justice made of sandstone, hence the name.

The New Kingdom and Coptic Egyptian sections are deep, but the statue of the goddess Nephthys and the limestone depiction of the goddess Hathor demonstrate New Kingdom sentiment and wealth.

This limestone statue of a Boddhisattva was probably created in the Henan province of China around 570, in the Northern Qi Dynasty.

Gallo-Roman limestone statue of Telesphorus discovered in 1884 in Moulézan ( southern France ), now exhibited in the Archeological Museum of Nîmes.

Within the museum in Memphis is a giant statue of the pharaoh carved of monumental limestone, about 10 metres in length.

The painted limestone statue of Djoser, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, is the oldest known life-sized Egyptian statue.

An inscription found at the base of a limestone statue dating from 13-37 AD, refers to ‘ Kyrenians Demos ' that is, the town's inhabitants.

It's a 241 ft x 66. 6 ft large limestone statue in shape of a recumbent lion with the head of a human, decorated with a royal Nemes-headdress.

The Great Sphinx of Giza (, ), commonly referred to as the Sphinx, is a limestone statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx ( a mythical creature with a lion's body and a human head ) that stands on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Giza, Egypt.

Late Gothic statue of Saint Denis, limestone, formerly polychromed ( Musée de Cluny )

Image: Mourning attendant, Tang Dynasty. jpg | A limestone statue of a mourning attendant, 7th century

In the 20th century, Marshall Fredericks executed a small bronze Hiawatha ( 1938 ), now installed in the Michigan University Centre ; a limestone statue ( 1949 ), also at the University of Michigan ; and a relief installed at the Birmingham Covington School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

An inscription on the limestone base of the statue shows that it was commissioned by Polyzalus, the tyrant of Gela, a Greek colony in Sicily, as a tribute to Apollo for helping him win the chariot race.

* The Bronx Victory Column & Memorial Grove: a tall limestone column supporting a statue of Winged Victory, honoring servicemen from the Bronx who lost their lives defending their country.

Covering, this grand classical style ensemble built from Plymouth limestone and Dartmoor granite, consists of grand gateway surmounted by statue of King William IV, there is the Slaughterhouse, then around a central dock basin, to the south Melville Square, a warehouse with a central courtyard, it has a clock tower over the main entrance, to the west of the basin is the Bakery with its mill and to the east the Brewery, with its cooperage.

At the top of the lintel was a limestone statue of a bird of 60 cm by 60 cm which has been called a goose, but is now thought more likely to be a raptor.

In 1996, the nonprofit Washington Interdependence Council won permission from the National Park Service ( NPS, which managed the park at the time ) to raise $ 3 million in funds to build a life-size statue of Banneker for the park and to make other improvements ( such as bas relief sculptures depicting Banneker's achievements on the limestone circle surrounding the overlook ).

Forty ancient art works will be returned including: the 5th century BC Aphrodite limestone and marble statue, in 2010 ; fresco paintings stolen from Pompeii, marble and bronze sculptures and Greek vases.

The Bronx Victory Column & Memorial Grove, built in 1933, is a 75-foot-tall limestone column that supports a bronze statue of Winged Victory on Crimi Road in Pelham Bay Park.

This half-metre-high statue of blue-grey limestone depicts a little girl with her hair in short pigtails, squatting and urinating, apparently very contentedly.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

A similar vessel was transported to the Musée du Louvre in 1867, a limestone dim, used for storing the must from the grapes, which dates to the sixth century BC.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.

The calcium carbonate of the limestone produces pH-neutral calcium sulfate that is physically removed from the scrubber.

This would have left a steep cliff, the bottom of which would be protected, because the limestone of the Cathedral Formation is difficult to compress, from tectonic decompression.

Anegada is geologically distinct from the rest of the group and is a flat island composed of limestone and coral.

Other industries include sun-dried sea salt in Great Inagua, a wet dock facility in Freeport for repair of cruise ships, and mining of aragonite — a type of limestone with several industrial uses — from the sea floor at Ocean Cay.

* The most comprehensive collection of sculpture from the Indian subcontinent in the world, including the celebrated Buddhist limestone reliefs from Amaravati

English masonry worker Joseph Aspdin patented Portland cement in 1824 ; it was named because of its similarity in color to Portland limestone, quarried from the English Isle of Portland and used extensively in London architecture.

The acid then dissolves the limestone from below, rather than from above, by acidic water percolating from the surface.

He performed an exhaustive market research on the available hydraulic limes, visiting their production sites, and noted that the " hydraulicity " of the lime was directly related to the clay content of the limestone from which it was made.

Cement is made by heating limestone ( calcium carbonate ) with small quantities of other materials ( such as clay ) to 1450 ° C in a kiln, in a process known as calcination, whereby a molecule of carbon dioxide is liberated from the calcium carbonate to form calcium oxide, or quicklime, which is then blended with the other materials that have been included in the mix.

Calcium aluminate cements are hydraulic cements made primarily from limestone and bauxite.

During the 1970 – 1978 restoration works and excavations inside the building, and under the nearby Muristan, it was found that the area was originally a quarry, from which white meleke limestone was struck.

Diego Garcia is the above-water rim of a coral atoll composed of Holocene coral rubble and sand to the depth of about 36 metres ( 120 ft ), overlaying Pleistocene limestone deposited at the then-sea level on top of a seamount rising approximately 1, 800 metres ( 6, 000 ft ) from the floor of the Indian Ocean.

An example of a pseudofossil: Manganese dendrites on a limestone bedding plane from Solnhofen, Germany ; scale in mm

The Great Pyramid consists of an estimated 2. 3 million limestone blocks with most believed to have been transported from nearby quarries.

It is estimated that 5. 5 million tons of limestone, 8, 000 tons of granite ( imported from Aswan ), and 500, 000 tons of mortar were used in the construction of the Great Pyramid.

A limestone house on Comly Road dates to this period, and there are permanent wagon wheel scars near a utility building for the 12 Mile Grove Cemetery, which is just hundreds of feet from the current corridor used by U. S. Route 20, a major east-west route through Northern Illinois.

Also, one of the largest limestone mines in Northern Europe is located in the municipality.

A few theories are provided why this rare geographical phenomenon happens Li Dao Yuan writes from the Northern Wei period ( 386-534 ), is due to the hill having a bell-shaped appearance and hollow inside, thus providing the sound when struck or water lapping within the limestone nooks and fissures around its base, as famous litterateur from the same time Su Shui discovered.

He worked mostly in stone, using limestone, fieldstone, and boulders he found throughout Northern Michigan.

Northern tributaries along the middle segment of Clarence River ( e. g., Mead Stream, Dee Stream, Muzzle Stream ) cut through an uplifted and rotated block of limestone and marl deposited from the late Cretaceous through the Paleocene and middle Eocene ( 75-45 million years ago ).

Fjord Seafood originated here, as well as the largest limestone mine in Northern Europe and the highest foodstuff production in Northern Norway are examples of entrepreneurship and well-run economy in this somewhat prosperous region.

Most of the statues are made of white marble and limestone, and could date back to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi dynasties 534-577 CE ).

Via Ferrata have been traditionally associated with limestone mountain regions, notably the Dolomites and the Northern Limestone Alps, as steep nature of the terrain creates the need for some form of protected paths, while the presence of ledges and natural weaknesses means relatively easy but rewarding routes can often be created.

Cuilcagh Mountain has one of the largest expanses of blanket bog in Northern Ireland, on a relatively high elevation upland landscape, bounded by limestone grassland to the north and montane habitats to the south.