The Pentelic marble portrait head of Arcadius ( illustration ) was discovered in Istanbul close to the Forum Tauri, in June 1949, in excavating foundations for new buildings of the University at Beyazit.

Greek marble relief c. 330 BC depicting a hoplite in combat, holding his weapon above his head as he prepares to strike a fallen enemy.

He subsequently worked for the railroad, first as a brakeman and later a surveyor, as a professional marble sculptor, and was assistant to the head architect of the 1913 San Francisco World's Fair, where some of his work was displayed.

The marble herm figure with the bearded head of philosopher type, bearing the explicit inscription, must be taken as purely conventional.

In 1980 the mosque was extensively refurbished in white marble and gold trim by Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin the head of the Dawoodi Bohra, an international Ismaili sect based in India.

The topmost course of the tower revolved slowly, showing a different leering head with each turn, and the marble walls of Minas Morgul shone not with reflected moonlight, but with a pale, frightening light of its own which Tolkien described as " a corpse-light " that " illuminated nothing ".

The iconography of the bronze David follows that of the marble David: a young hero stands with sword in hand, the decapitated head of his enemy at his feet.

He places his left foot on Goliath's head ; on the one hand, this pose allows Donatello to connect David more strongly to his fallen foe than he did in the marble version.

The throne is made of sixty-five pieces of marble and was designed by Mirza Baba Naghash Bashi ( head painter ) of the Qajar court.

Sabazios ' relations with the goddess may be surmised in the way that his horse places a hoof on the head of the bull, in a Roman marble relief at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

His head of Abraham Lincoln, carved from a six-ton block of marble, was exhibited in Theodore Roosevelt's White House and can be found in the United States Capitol Crypt in Washington, D. C. A patriot, believing that the " monuments we have built are not our own ," he looked to create art that was " American, drawn from American sources, memorializing American achievement " according to a 1908 interview article.

A 17th century record states that " this cave a beautiful gate with a porch of exquisitely wrought marble " and two idols, one of goddess Vetal Candi and a head being in a large square seat.

* The " Rondanini Medusa ", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena ; later used as a model for the Gorgon's head in Antonio Canova's marble Perseus with the Head of Medusa ( 1798 – 1801 )

In 2008, archaeologists digging at the ancient site of Sagalassos in Turkey discovered a colossal marble head which is believed to be that of Faustina.

In January 1930, during the Bush House excavations for the South East Wing, a marble head was uncovered from a pile of rubble.

The head is an elderly, balding Roman man carved from Carrara marble.

The marble sculpture appears to depict Moses with horns on his head, though some modern artists and historians claim that there were never intended to be horns.

Roman marble Meleager of Skopas | head of Meleager, after Scopas, on a restored bust ( British Museum ).

Roman marble sculpture of Agathodaemon restored with an unrelated head, as " Antinous Agathodaemon ", purchased in Rome ca.

This satisfied him for another year, when an introduction to the foreman of some marble works, and the sight of a small head of Bacchus, unsettled him again.

Holding a marble sculpture head, the woman seems to be entering into a dream.

They are made of glass and sealed with a marble ; the codd head held in place by the pressure of the carbonation in the drink.

Una wrote to Julian that their mother's grave was " on a sunny hillside looking towards the east ... We had a head and footstone of white marble, with a place for flowers between, and Rose and I planted some ivy there that I had brought from America, and a periwinkle from papa's grave.

Many marble sculptures were found, including two archaic kouros head, a naked male statue, part of the Archaic period perirrantiriou inscribed with the inscription " Marda anethiken ".

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

Now the park is filled with marble busts and all the streets in the immediate area have the full and proper names of the men who fell.

The Apollo Belvedere is a marble sculpture that was rediscovered in the late 15th century ; for centuries it epitomized the ideals of Classical Antiquity for Europeans, from the Renaissance through the 19th century.

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

It is a slab of white marble long, wide, and thick, on which are 5 groups of markings.

The battle between the Athenians and Amazons is often commemorated in an entire genre of art, amazonomachy, in marble bas-reliefs such as from the Parthenon or the sculptures of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

The limestone phase of the building is referred to as Pro-Parthenon I while the marble phase of the building as Pro-Parthenon II.

To the north of the city is a large artificial lake, called Anasagar with a marble structure known as Baradari.

The nearby town of Kishangarh is one of the largest centres for marble products, employing about 7, 000 people.

The Dargāh Sharīf of Khwāja Mu ' īnuddīn Chishtī is situated at the foot of the Tārāgaṛh hill, and consists of several white marble buildings arranged around two courtyards, including a massive gate donated by the Nizām of Hyderabad and the Akbari Mosque, built by the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān.

The school's main building, in white marble, is a classic example of Indo-Saracenic architecture.

Nowadays Afyon is known for its marble ( in 2005 there were 355 marble quarries in the province of Afyon producing high quality white stone ), its sucuk ( spiced sausages ), its kaymak ( meaning either cream or a white Turkish Delight ) and various handmade weavings.

Solutional caves are the most frequently occurring caves and such caves form in rock that is soluble, such as limestone, but can also form in other rocks, including chalk, dolomite, marble, salt, and gypsum.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Sea traffic is limited to trade in the export of local produce, mainly citrus fruits, grapes, marble, aggregates and some domestic imports.

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 cladding of red marble applied to the Aedicule by Komminos has deteriorated badly and is detaching from the underlying structure ; since 1947 it has been held in place with an exterior scaffolding of iron girders installed by the British Mandate.

Afghanistan is endowed with a wealth of natural resources, including extensive deposits of natural gas, petroleum, coal, marble, gold, copper, chromite, talc, barites, sulfur, lead, zinc, iron ore, salt, precious and semi-precious stones, and many rare earth elements.

The original black marble sarcophagus collapsed at Burg Hohenzollern — the current one is a copper copy.

Pillars of marble and granite give way to staircases of Carrara marble, freestone, and alabaster, and a ceiling decorated in gold leaf is topped by a stained glass dome.

With increasing amounts of acid rain in parts of the world, granite has begun to supplant marble as a monument material, since it is much more durable.