The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

The Greek abacus was a table of wood or marble, pre-set with small counters in wood or metal for mathematical calculations.

According to tradition, Constantine arranged for the rockface to be removed from around the tomb, without harming it, in order to isolate the tomb ; in the centre of the rotunda is a small building called the Kouvouklion ( Kουβούκλιον ; Modern Greek for small compartment ) or Aedicule ( from Latin: aediculum, small building ), which supposedly encloses this tomb, although it is not currently possible to verify the claim, as the remains are completely enveloped by a marble sheath.

The Diana of Versailles a 2nd-Century marble statue of Diana, copied from an earlier Greek original.

Though some Roman patrons ordered marble replicas of the specifically Anatolian " Diana " of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood, Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise.

In this play, Booth portrayed a Greek sculptor in costume, making marble statues come to life.

In Elizabethan gardens " the plants were almost incidental ", and instead the design focus was on sculptures, including four wooden obelisks painted to resemble porphyry and a marble fountain with a statue of two Greek mythological figures.

The word " marble " derives from the Greek "" ( mármaron ), from "" ( mármaros ), " crystalline rock ", " shining stone ", perhaps from the verb "" ( marmaírō ), " to flash, sparkle, gleam ".

Head of Odysseus from a Greek 2nd century BC marble group representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga

The sea takes its name from the island of Marmara, which is rich in sources of marble, from the Greek μάρμαρον ( marmaron ), " marble ".

The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, commissioned some time between 230 BC – 220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians

The centrepiece of the gardens is a marble statue on a high pedestal, of the mortally wounded Achilles ( Greek: Αχιλλεύς Θνήσκων, Achilleús Thnēskōn, Achilles Dying ) without hubris and wearing only a simple cloth and an ancient Greek hoplite helmet.

An ancient Greek marble sarcophagus had been reused to bury the Saint ; but his bones were stolen in 1087 by merchants from Bari, and are now held in the cathedral of that city.

This the Greek government did despite the fact that the cost of refurbishing the stadium in marble had already been funded in full by Evangelis Zappas forty years earlier.

Similar lion-mouthed water spouts were also seen on Greek temples, carved or modeled in the marble or terracotta cymatium of the cornice.

The exterior of the Memorial echoes a classic Greek temple and features Yule marble from Colorado.

Ashore, d ' Urville and officer Matterer met a Greek farmer named Moraitis, who a few days earlier while ploughing his fields had uncovered blocks of marble and a statue in two pieces, which he offered cheaply to the two young men.

Searching for marble in 1904 he first visited the island of Skyros and was confrontated with the cubic architecture of the Greek islands.

Artemis, Ancient Greek marble sculpture.

Commissioned by Ludwig I of Bavaria in 1808 and finished in 1832 a statue of Adonis is one of the few works in marble carved solely by Thorvaldsen's own hand, and at the same time it is one of the works that is closest to the antique Greek ideals.

The death of Dirce is depicted in a marble statue, a 1st-century AD Roman Copy of a 2nd-century BC Hellenistic Greek original known as the Farnese Bull, which is now in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

In ancient Greek religion Artemis Caryatis was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Karyai in Laconia ; there an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatidai, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as the marble caryatids supporting the porch of the Erechtheum.

The Sumerian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Indian, Minoan, Greek, Roman, Persian and Arab Empires all made widespread use of opium, which was the most potent form of pain relief then available, allowing ancient surgeons to perform prolonged surgical procedures.

The Etruscans, who had a sophisticated knowledge of Greek mythology, demonstrated a particular interest in the theme of the delivery of Helen's egg, which is depicted in relief mirrors.

Orography ( from the Greek όρος, hill, γραφία, to write ) is the study of the formation and relief of mountains, and can more broadly include hills, and any part of a region's elevated terrain.

* A 2nd century BC relief from a Buddhist stupa in Bharhut, in eastern Madhya Pradesh ( today at the Indian Museum in Calcutta ), represents a foreign soldier with the curly hair of a Greek and the royal headband with flowing ends of a Greek king, and may be a depiction of Menander.

File: Relief of Medea and the Peliades in Berlin. jpg | Medea and the Peliades around a tripod ( 1828 relief after a 5th-century BC Greek original )

His speech has become a focus of subsequent scholarly debate, as his contribution has been seen as mere comic relief, and sometimes as satire: the creation myth he puts forward to account for heterosexuals and homosexuals may be read as poking fun at the myths of man origin numerous in classical Greek mythology.

" In another there is a shallow relief sculpture showing a dove with a branch flying to a figure marked in Greek ΕΙΡΗΝΗ ( Eirene, or Peace ).

* Mourning Athena, a Greek relief sculpture dating around c. 470 BC

Greek tragedy does not allow any comic relief.

Among them is the Parian Chronicle, inscribed about 263 BC so called because it was found on Paros, which gives Greek dates from 1582 BC down to 354 BCE Among outstanding pieces is a metrological relief that shows parts of the human body, outstretched arms, elbow to finger tips, foot, clenched fists and fingers and was used as a standard unit of measure.

While ancient Greek vase-painters and relief carvers imagined Medusa and her sisters as beings born of monstrous form, sculptors and vase-painters of the fifth century began to envisage her as being beautiful as well as terrifying.

High relief Metope ( architecture ) | metope from the Classical Greek Elgin Marbles.

Smaller Greek sculptures such as private tombs, and smaller decorative areas such as friezes on large buildings, more often used low relief.

File: UnfinishedStele-NefertitiPouringWineIntoAkhenatensCup. png |" Blocked-out " unfinished low relief of Ahkenaten and Nefertiti ; unfinished Greek high-reliefs show the same method of beginning a work.

Ancient Greek low relief.

Hellenistic Greek tomb door bas relief, Leeds City Museum.

A stele (, historically ; Greek: stēlē ; plural: stēlai ), also stela ( plural stelae ) Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living — inscribed, carved in relief ( bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, and so forth ), or painted onto the slab.

Sarcophagi carved in relief had already become highly elaborate, and Christian versions adopted new styles, showing a series of different tightly packed scenes rather than one overall image ( usually derived from Greek history painting ) as was the norm.

Ancient Greek votive relief, 400 BCE.

Offerings to a deified hero and another deity, depicted on a Greek marble relief ca.

Many of the art forms and methods used by the Romans — such as high and low relief, free-standing sculpture, bronze casting, vase art, mosaic, cameo, coin art, fine jewelry and metalwork, funerary sculpture, perspective drawing, caricature, genre and portrait painting, landscape painting, architectural sculpture, and trompe l ’ oeil painting — all were developed or refined by Ancient Greek artists.

Traditional Roman sculpture is divided into five categories: portraiture, historical relief, funerary reliefs, sarcophagi, and copies of ancient Greek works.

The movie opens with an image of a white Greek bas relief that " explodes " to reveal black men dancing the samba to drums in a favela.