The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem has the Cardo Maximus, the town ’ s main street, beginning at the northern gate, today's Gates in Jerusalem's Old City Walls | Damascus Gate, and traversing the city in a straight line from north to south to Nea Church.

Strictly speaking, it refers to art unconcerned with the literal depiction of things from the visible world — it can, however, refer to an object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed, another work of art.

The Battle of the Nile remains one of the Royal Navy's most famous victories, and has remained prominent in the British popular imagination, sustained by its depiction in a large number of cartoons, paintings, poems and plays.

The two illustrators, David Henry Friston and Michael Fitzgerald, show some inconsistencies in their depiction of the characters, and as such some confusion has arisen in identifying the pictures as part of a continuous plot.

The film has been extremely controversial for its negative depiction of African Americans, white Unionists and Reconstruction, and its positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan.

His depiction of Elbonia has also drawn criticism from a variety of corners.

It has been commended for its sensitive depiction of the close relationship between the eponymous hero and his religious mentor, the Quaker William Walters.

This depiction has been theorized as a metaphor for Christ's defeat of Satan.

However, it has been argued that anti-Semitic themes continued, especially in the depiction of Tintin's enemy Rastapopoulos in the post-war Flight 714, though other writers argue against this, pointing out the way that Rastapopoulos surrounds himself with explicitly German-looking characters: Kurt, the submarine ( or u-boat ) commander of The Red Sea Sharks ; Doctor Krollspell, whom Hergé himself referred to as a former concentration camp official, and Hans Boehm, the sinister-looking navigator and co-pilot, both from Flight 714.

The series has been criticized for its poor depiction of pantheist and universalist beliefs via its fictional Enigma Babylon One World Faith, which has overtones of Hinduism and Buddhism.

The depiction of organic compounds with drawings is greatly simplified by the fact that carbon in almost all organic compounds has four bonds, nitrogen three, oxygen two, and hydrogen one.

She has a large stylized flower turned over her head, and the resemblance with the flower picking Persephone and her companions is compelling The depiction of the goddess is similar with later images of " Anodos of Pherephata ".

One element from Yesteryear that has become canon by depiction within Star Trek: The Original Series is the Vulcan city of ShiKahr, depicted in a background scene wherein Kirk, Spock and McCoy walk across a natural stone bridge ( first depicted in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock ) in the remastered " Amok Time ".

His signature combination of slow-motion, fast editing, and the deliberate distension of time has become the standard depiction of violence and action in post-Peckinpavian cinema.

Apart from two or three representations of ( ritual ) helmets – with protrusions that may be either stylised ravens, snakes or horns – no depiction of Viking Age warriors ' helmets, and no preserved helmet, has horns.

The depiction has also been theorized as a metaphor for Jesus's defeat of Satan.

Legend has it that the Buddha himself created the first depiction of the bhavacakra, and the story of how he gave the illustration to King Rudrāyaṇa appears in the anthology of Buddhist narratives called the Divyavadana.

Although Lermontov's depiction of the Georgian queen as a destructive seductress had no apparent historical background, it has been influential enough to raise the issue of Tamar's sexuality, a question that was given some prominence by the 19th-century European authors.

The line serves as a dramatic ending to the depiction of the attack, but it has yet to be verified that Yamamoto ever said this ( although it may well have encapsulated many of his real feelings about the attack ).

The film's dystopian depiction of " genoism " has been cited by many bioethicists and laymen in support of their hesitancy about, or opposition to, liberal eugenics and the societal acceptance of the genetic-determinist ideology that may frame it.

Authorized biographer Jeremy Wilson noted that the film has " undoubtedly influenced the perceptions of some subsequent biographers " such as the depiction of the film's Ali as the real Sherif Ali, rather than a composite character, and also the highlighting of the Deraa incident.

Wired observes that while Cawley's depiction " lacks Shatner's vulnerability ", the actor has enough swagger " to be passable in the role of Captain Kirk ".

The western pediment has Apollo as the central figure, " majestic " and " remote ", presiding over a battle of Lapiths and Centaurs, in strong contrast to that of the eastern pediment for its depiction of violent action, and described by D. E. Strong as the " most powerful piece of illustration " for a hundred years.

There have been many attempts to explain the depiction of Cerberus.

There is a depiction of a hockey-like game from 200 BC in Ancient Greece when the game may have been called " Κερητίζειν " (" kerētízein ") because it was played with a horn (" κέρας " in Greek ) and a ball-like object.

Davidson adds that, on the other hand, various other examples of " certain supernatural women " connected with death are to be found in sources for Norse mythology, that they " seem to have been closely connected with the world of death, and were pictured as welcoming dead warriors ," and that the depiction of Hel " as a goddess " in Gylfaginning " might well owe something to these.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

It is possible that Jahangir might have seen these images in their Islamic persona, as the Qur ' an features such creatures, yet depiction of living things was haraam ( forbidden ), so the images could well have been created by a Christian artist.

In a symbolically important step, Sergius I declared support for the chant " Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us " at the breaking of the Host during Mass, and restored the damaged facade mosaic in St. Peter's atrium that depicted the Worship of the Lamb ; the depiction of Christ as lamb had been prohibited by the Council.

The depiction of the building itself is generally accurate and it gives a good impression of what the underground hypogeum would have been like.

Although neglected in France for much of the 19th century, the music of Berlioz has often been cited as extremely influential in the development of the symphonic form, instrumentation, and the depiction in music of programmatic and literary ideas, features central to musical Romanticism.

The bas-relief in the Arch of Titus has been influential in the depiction of the destruction of Jerusalem, with the Menorah frequently being used to symbolise the looting of the Second Temple.

In popular culture, the adapted, or " semi-classical ", Bharatanatyam has been exposed largely through depiction in popular movies and TV programs.

Those poems are generally thought to have been composed sometime in the 9th or 8th centuries BC, but may have made use of older mythological and poetic traditions ; their depiction of the hero Odysseus, and his rule over Ithaca and the surrounding islands and mainland, preserve somes memories of the political geography, customs and society of the time.

His paintings often hinted at narrative content in a way that was highly ambiguous ; for example, Interior ( which has also been called The Rape ) has presented a conundrum to art historians in search of a literary source — Thérèse Raquin has been suggested — but it may be a depiction of prostitution.

In support of the reading of Shakespeare ’ s play as subversive, it has also been argued that 16th century audiences would have interpreted Antony and Cleopatra ’ s depiction of different models of government as exposing inherent weaknesses in an absolutist, imperial, and by extension monarchical, political state.

A figure often interpreted as a depiction of a mother goddess from Samarra, ca 6000 BCE ( Louvre Museum )

This painting has been interpreted as a depiction of an erupting volcano, with a cluster of houses below shows a twin peaked volcano in eruption, with a town at its base ( though archaeologists now question this interpretation ).

Similarly, a representation of a haloed man with a lion could be interpreted as a depiction of St. Mark.

This movement has been interpreted as a depiction of battle, or ( by Kurt Sanderling ) as " the crushing of the individual " by the Soviet system.

Some authors saw this feature as the depiction of an actual physical property, resembling the Khoisan tribe of southern Africa, while others interpreted it as a symbol of fertility and abundance.

It is a 6cm-long piece of quartzite rock, and has been interpreted as a depiction of the human form, gender indeterminate and faceless, dated between 300, 000 and 500, 000 years ago, during the Middle Acheulean period.

While others interpreted the cave images as depictions of hunting accidents or of ceremonies, Frobenius believed it was much more likely that "... what was undertaken the paintings was a consecration of the animal effected not through any real confrontation of man and beast but by a depiction of a concept of the mind.

It is often interpreted as a depiction of a ritual performed in connection with bull worship.

The motifs associated with his depiction on Copan monuments have a distinct resemblance to imagery associated with the height of the Classic-era center of Teotihuacan in the distant northern central Mexican region, and have been interpreted as intending to suggest his origins and association with that prestigious civilization.

Completed circa 1879, this painting is interpreted as an anti-Semitic depiction of Jews in Paris, due especially to the exaggerated features and postures of the subjects.

In particular, it was interpreted as a depiction of Johan de Witt.