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Bas-relief of a charioteer, late 6th century B. C.
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Bas-relief carvings of a religious nature or of a profile of the deceased can be seen on headstones dating from before the 19th century.
Bas-relief and .
Image: 20070124 sejm detale budynek k kobieta z golebiem. jpg | Bas-relief from the Polish Parliament building in Warsaw, Poland
Bas-relief of Gregory IX in the United States House of Representatives | US House of Representatives.
Bas-relief from the king Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria ( now Khorsabad in Iraq ), c. 713 – 716 BC.
Image: 0 Sainte Waudru-Mons 1. JPG | Bas-relief on the western wall in Saint Waltrude's Collegiate Church
This copy of a Relief # Bas-relief or low relief | bas relief from the North Palace of Ashurbanipal ( 669 – 631 BC ) at Nineveh shows a luxurious garden watered by an aqueduct.
Bas-relief in Persepolis — a symbol Zoroastrism | Zoroastrian Nowruz — in day of a spring equinox power of eternally fighting bull ( personifying the moon ), and a lion ( personifying the Sun, the bulls crescent horn resembling the moon, the lions mane, representing the sun.
File: Decebalus b. jpg | Bas-relief from 113 AD representing the Dacian King Decebalus, wearing a Dacian cap, Trajan's Column, Rome.
File: Nowruz Zoroastrian. jpg | Bas-relief in Persepolis-a symbol of Zoroastrian Nowruz-in day of a spring equinox power of eternally fighting bull ( personifying the Earth ), and a lion ( personifying the Sun ), are equal
Image: Bas relief at Ryerson University. jpg | Elizabeth Wyn Wood's Bas-relief at Ryerson University in Toronto
Bas-relief sculptures illustrate scenes from biblical stories, scenes from the life of Kaiser Wilhelm I and symbolic figures representing war and peace.
charioteer and century
A white charioteer ; part of a mosaic of the third century AD, showing four leading charioteers from the different colors, all in their distinctive gear.
Capella traditionally marks the left shoulder of the constellation's eponymous charioteer, or, according to the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest, the goat that the charioteer is carrying.
* Hierocles ( charioteer ), 2nd-3rd century, presumed lover and court official of the emperor Elagabalus
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When Michael assumed power in 856, he became known for excessive drunkenness, appeared in the hippodrome as a charioteer and burlesqued the religious processions of the clergy.
The charioteer has lost many features, including his chariot and his left arm, but he stands as a tribute to athletic art of antiquity.
For his second labour, to slay the Lernaean Hydra, Heracles took with him his nephew, Iolaus, as a charioteer.
Elagabalus tried to have his presumed lover, the charioteer Hierocles, declared Caesar, while another alleged lover, the athlete Aurelius Zoticus, was appointed to the non-administrative but influential position of Master of the Chamber, or Cubicularius.
Similarly, a city has three parts – Socrates uses the parable of the chariot to illustrate his point: a chariot works as a whole because the two horses ’ power is directed by the charioteer.
His charioteer, Krishna ( an avatar of god ), explains to Arjuna the concept of dharma ( duty ) among other things and makes him see that it is his duty to fight.
The charioteer of Surya is Aruna, who is also personified as the redness that accompanies the sunlight in dawn and dusk.
* April – Massacre of Thessalonica: Resentment among the citizens of Thessalonica ( Thrace ), after the arrest of a popular charioteer, breaks out into violence.
The chariot, driven by a charioteer, was used for ancient warfare during the bronze and the iron ages.
Although sometimes carrying a spearman along with the charioteer ( driver ), such heavy proto-chariots, borne on solid wooden wheels and covered with skins, may have been part of the baggage train ( e. g., during royal funeral processions ) rather than vehicles of battle in themselves.
During the Shang Dynasty, members of the royal family were buried with a complete household and servants, including a chariot, horses, and a charioteer.
Without inscriptions, as the Celtic practice was, the Redones coinage features a charioteer whose pony has a human head.
For example, a charioteer, a sculptor or a warrior could be described as sophoi in their occupations.
When Hector was driving the Achaeans back toward their ships, Teucer gave the Argives some success by killing many of the charging Trojans, including Hector's charioteer, Archeptolemus son of Iphitos.
At Iliad 17. 590, Automedon, Achilles ' charioteer, states that only Patroclus was able to fully control these horses.
At a festival of Poseidon at Onchestus, Clymenus quarreled with a group of Thebans over a minor cause and was mortally wounded as a result of a stone thrown at him by Perieres, the charioteer of Menoeceus.
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