Moai - British Museum
The Museum cares for two large stone moai from Rapa Nui (Easter Island): Hoa Hakananai'a and Moai Hava. Moai are megalithic statues often placed upon ahu (ceremonial platforms). They are said to be the aringa ora, the living faces of the ancestors.
statue - British Museum
Dimensions. Height:2.13 metres. Width:720 millimetres (base only) Depth:560 millimetres (base only) Curator's comments. Adapted from a lost Greek original of the 4th century BC. The arms were restored in the 18th century and the statue was set in another plinth, thereby changing the original pose and viewpoint.
statue - British Museum
The (complete) statue shows a woman wearing a long conventional dress, with her hands laid flat on her knees. The inscriptions on the base are damaged but seem to name two queens. On the left is almost certainly the name of Ahmose-Merytamun, wife and sister of Amenhotep I, and on the right may be that of her sister Sitamun, also wife and sister ...
A History of the World - Object : Statue of Ramesses II - BBC
The bust of Ramesses II is one of the largest pieces of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum and weighs over 7 tons. When we move an object this large, a combined team of museum...
Hoa Hakananai'a - Wikipedia
Hoa Hakananai'a is a moai, a statue from Easter Island. It was taken from Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in 1868 by the crew of a British ship and is now in the British Museum in London. It has been described as a "masterpiece" [1] and among the finest examples of …
Statue of Ramesses II, the 'Younger Memnon' - Google Arts
One of the largest pieces of Egyptian sculpture in the British Museum, this statue shows Ramesses II (EA19), who succeeded his father Seti I in around 1279...
British Museum - Wikipedia
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [3] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
Burney Relief - Wikipedia
The Burney Relief (also known as the Queen of the Night relief) is a Mesopotamian terracotta plaque in high relief of the Isin-Larsa period or Old-Babylonian period, depicting a winged, nude, goddess-like figure with bird's talons, flanked by owls, and perched upon two lions.. Side view showing depth of the relief. The relief is displayed in the …
statue - British Museum
Description. Grandiorite statue of Horemheb with Amun-Ra: the figures are carved, almost in the round, in one piece with a back support and low pedestal. The god is represented shrouded and bears the attributes of the ithyphallic god Min.
Horse of Selene Sculpture, Large - Ancient Greek Replicas - The British …
The Horse of Selene is a detail from the east pediment of the Parthenon in Athens, a temple from ancient Greece famed for its incredible marble sculptures. The horse originates from the Acropolis in Athens, and dates to 438-432 BC.