The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

" He also illustrates the concept by saying, " If I point to a statue of Caesar and ask you ' Who is that?

' When you say such you do not mean that the stone itself is Caesar, but rather, the name and honor you ascribe to the statue passes over to the original, the archetype, Caesar himself.

But Caesar even erected a golden statue of Cleopatra represented as Isis in the temple of Venus Genetrix ( the mythical ancestress of Caesar's family ), which was situated at the Forum Julium.

In 12 B. C., Juba named this plant after his physician Euphorbus in response to Augustus Caesar dedicating a statue to Antonius Musa, his own personal physician.

In ancient Rome Appias was a statue of a nymph near the Appiades Fountain in the Forum of Caesar.

In 46 B. C., the Roman Senate voted to build and dedicate a shrine to Libertas in recognition of Julius Caesar, but no temple was built ; instead, a small statue of the goddess stood in the Roman Forum.

However, these three statues were later speculatively ' identified ' by the writer Daniel Defoe ( 1659 – 1731 ) as Caesar ( 100 – 44 BC ) and Pompey ( 106 – 48 BC ) responsible for the decline of the Roman republic facing a statue of Cicero ( 106 – 43 BC ), the defender of the Republic.

Statue of Augustus | Caesar Augustus, c. 30 BC – 20 BC ; this statue is located in the Louvre

The statue of the mythical monster King Caesar, protector of Okinawa, is vital should the prophecy come true.

" A closeup of a statue of Caesar shows a single tear falling from one eye.

Dehn chose to go with a close up of a statue of Caesar with a tear falling from its eye which Joyce Corrington characterized as "... stupid.

A wicker man was a large wicker statue of a human used by the ancient Druids ( priests of Celtic paganism ) for human sacrifice by burning it in effigy, according to Julius Caesar in his Commentarii de Bello Gallico ( Commentary on the Gallic War ).

An audio-visual welcome from a heroic statue of Caesar was enhanced by music, a light show, and a gas flame curling up from a fissure in the " rock.

* A statue of Lucius Caesar can be seen at

It seems that the doors of the Temple were left opened so that it was possible to see the statue of the deified pontifex maximus Julius Caesar from the main square of the Roman Forum.

Visible: altar, statue of Caesar veiled and with lituus, the Star in the Tympanum.

* a colossal statue of Julius Caesar, veiled as Pontifex Maximus, with a star on his head and bearing the lituus augural staff in his right hand ; when the doors of the temple were left open, it was possible to clearly see the statue from the Roman Forum main square.

In real life, the main square in Clermont-Ferrand has a statue of Vercingetorix, as oppeosed to the statue of Caesar in the book.

After a few tortuous moments of wondering who `` he '' is, the camera pans across the room to the plaster statue, and we realize that Neitzbohr is trying to redeem himself in the eyes of a mute piece of sculpture.

It is considered that he created also the New York kouros, which is the oldest fully preserved statue of Kouros type, and seems to be the incarnation of the god himself.

One tablet from this period reads, "( From the earliest days ) no-one had made a statue of lead, ( but ) Rimush king of Kish, had a statue of himself made of lead.

Then it passed through the oval Forum of Constantine where there was a second Senate-house and a high column with a statue of Constantine himself in the guise of Helios, crowned with a halo of seven rays and looking toward the rising sun.

In response, Caligula ordered the erection of a statue of himself in the Jewish Temple of Jerusalem, a demand in conflict with Jewish monotheism.

He is accused of sleeping with other men's wives and bragging about it, killing for mere amusement, deliberately wasting money on his bridge, causing starvation, and wanting a statue of himself erected in the Temple of Jerusalem for his worship.

On the base of the statue were inscribed the opening words of the Scotland Act: " There Shall Be A Scottish Parliament ", a phrase to which Dewar himself famously said, " I like that!

Howard's son later admitted that his father had carved the statue himself.

It has been suggested that Hadrian was deliberately imitating Phidias ' famous statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon, seeking to draw attention to the temple and himself by doing so.

However, a century later, it was claimed that Kimnara had himself woven the statue.

In 2008, Berdimuhamedow restored the traditional names of the months and days of the week ( Niyazov had renamed them after himself and his mother, among other things ), and announced plans to move the infamous gold rotating statue of Niyazov from Ashgabat's central square.

* Retired Emperor Shōmu takes part in the dedication ceremony of the great statue of Vairocana Buddha at the Tōdai-ji, and declares himself a Buddhist.

* Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the temple in Jerusalem.

Darius did not believe that he had achieved the throne through fraud but through brilliant sagacity, even erecting a statue of himself mounted on his neighing horse stating " Darius, son of Hystaspes, obtained the sovereignty of Persia by the sagacity of his horse and the ingenious contrivance of Oebases, his groom.

* Constantine I dedicated the Basilica of Maxentius and installs a large statue of himself inside it.

There is no statue of any kind set up in the place, nor is the chamber occupied of nights by any one but a single native woman, who, as the Chaldeans, the priests of this god, affirm, is chosen for himself by the deity out of all the women of the land.

Additionally the statue is mentioned in the ancient terma of Guru Padmasambhava himself, said to date from approximately the 8th century, and recovered some 800 years ago by terton Pema Lingpa.

* A bronze statue called Gallic Chieftain killing his wife and himself is made ( approximate date ).

Hadrian had intended the construction of the new city as a gift to the Jews, but since he had constructed a giant statue of himself in front of the Temple of Jupiter and the Temple of Jupiter had a huge statue of Jupiter inside of it, there were now two enormous graven images on the Temple Mount.

His grave is marked with a statue of Klods-Hans ( English: Clumsy Hans ), a Hans Christian Andersen character who left home to find his way in the world — much as Hersholt himself had done.

Pre-1778 artifacts that never left the city since its founding include the Vajradhara statue made by Zanabazar himself in 1683 ( the city's main deity kept at the Vajradhara temple ), a highly ornate throne presented to Zanabazar by the Kangxi Emperor ( before 1723 ), a sandalwood hat presented to Zanabazar by the Dalai Lama ( c. 1663 ), Zanabazar's large fur coat which was also presented by the Kangxi Emperor and a great number of original statues made by Zanabazar himself ( e. g. the Green Tara ).

Bali nese wooden statue of Vishnu riding Garuda, Purna Bhakti Pertiwi Museum, Jakarta

Image: Léopold II Bruxelles. JPG | Leopold II horseback riding statue, Regent place, Brussels.

However, Deyts notes that the bronze Gallo-Roman statue of a woman in a short belted tunic, riding a boar sidesaddle and holding a knife ( Boucher fig. 292, or here ), bears no inscription, and was simply assumed to be Arduinna by the 19th century antiquarian who discovered it — perhaps because the modern symbol of the Ardennes region is also a boar ( Deyts 1992, pp. 46 – 47 ).

The statue of Renommée, or the fame of the king, riding the horse Pegasus, ( 1699 ) by Antoine Coysevox ( 1640-1720 ) at the west entrance of the Garden.

There was a temple to Poseidon and a statue of Arion riding the dolphin.

In 2005, the Perth and District Chamber of Commerce erected a bronze statue of Big Ben, with Ian Millar riding, in a park on the banks of the Tay River in downtown Perth, Ontario.

Antonio Pasin took on major debt to fund the construction of a 45 foot tall wood and plaster Coaster Boy statue depicting a boy riding a Liberty Coaster wagon.

He is commemorated by a prominent statue on the Esplanade, or sea-front, recording the gratitude of the inhabitants, and by the locally well-known White Horse of Osmington, which by a regrettable oversight showed the King riding out of the town, not into it, which is said to have angered him so much that he never returned.

The result of that race is immortalized in bronze at the top of the paddock at Arlington, where a statue of jockey Bill Shoemaker riding John Henry to a thrilling come-from-behind victory over 40-1 long shot The Bart celebrates Thoroughbred racing's inaugural million dollar race.

As further evidence of their view they state the example of Phelgye Ling monastery that was transformed to a Gelug monastery by the 5th Dalai Lama, who gave the monastery a statue ( about 20 cm high ) of Dorje Shugden riding on a black horse, which still exists in the monastery in Kathmandu.

He placed a statue of Pallas Athene riding on a quadriga above the main entrance.

A statue on the Francisco Fajardo Highway in Caracas by the Venezuelan sculptor, Alejandro Colina, portrays her as a well-endowed and strong woman, riding a large tapir, and holding a female pelvis, to represent fertility.

A statue of Meir Dizengoff riding his horse, located on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv

The Statue of Queen Elizabeth II riding Burmese | equestrian statue of Queen Elizabeth II in Regina, Saskatchewan, created to commemorate Elizabeth's Golden Jubilee as Monarchy of Canada | Queen of Canada

The couple was next in Saskatchewan, unveiling on the grounds of the provincial parliament the product of the Golden Jubilee Statue Project: a bronze equestrian statue of the Queen riding Burmese, a horse gifted in 1969 to the Queen by the RCMP.

A bronze equestrian statue, sculpted by Clark Mills and depicting George Washington riding his horse during the Battle of Princeton, was installed in the center of the circle on February 22, 1860, at a total cost of $ 60, 000.

Within the vicinity of the town square is a 15-metre high watertower, and also a statue of Diponegoro riding a horse.

Arjuna Wijaya statue in Central Jakarta depicting Krishna and Arjuna riding a chariot.

There is also a memorial park to her outside of Ayutthaya, featuring a large statue of the queen riding a war elephant.