Limestone Collection (page 3)

Pergamon Altar. Probably the twins Castor and Pollux
Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. North frieze. Probably the twins Castor and Pollux

Pergamon Altar. Orion and Enyo
Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. North frieze. Orion and Enyo. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany

Pergamon Altar. The three Moirai, goddesses of fate, kill th
Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. North frieze

Persian art. Persepolis. Apadana. Palace of Darius I. Lion a
Persian art. Persepolis. Achaemenid period. Apadana Palace. First palace built under Darius I in the new capital, Persepolis. Stands decorated with reliefs. 6th century and 5th centuries BC

Greek Art. Cyprus. Kouros. It comes from Dali. 6th century B
Greek Art. Cyprus. Kouros. Statue of a young man dated to 550 BC. Limestone. It comes from Dali (Cyprus). Egyptian Museum (Altes Museum). Berlin. Germany

Stele dedicated to Mnevis, the bull of Ra. Egypt
Stele dedicated to Mnevis, the bull of Ra. Limestone. 20th Dynasty. New Kingdom. C. 1100 BC. From Heliopolis. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Denmark

Gargoyle from Sanctuary of Jupiter Heliopolitanus. Baalbek
Lionhead gargoyle. 2nd century AD. Limestone. From the entablure of the courtyard colonnades of the Sanctuary of Jupiter Heliopolitanus. Baalbek, Lebanon. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germnany

Statue of the goddess Artemis, perhaps Artemis Bendis wearing a Phrygian cap. Limestone. Made in Cyprus. 300-200 BC. From the Sanctuary of Apollo at Pyla. British Museum. London. England

Slab with relief of a male winged sphinx. 358-338 BC. Persep
Slab with relief of a male winged sphinx wearing divine horned head-dress. 358-338 BC. Originally part of the facade of the Palace G, built by King Artaxerxes III

Colossal statue of a bearded man with laurel wreath. 500-480
Colossal statue of a bearded man with laurel wreath. Probably a priest. Limestone. Sculpted in Cyprus between 500-480 BC. From the Sanctuary of Apollo at Idalion. British Museum. London. England

Head from a statue of a devout man with laurel wreath. 270-2
Head from a statue of a devout man with laurel wreath. Limestone. Sculpted in Cyprus between 270-200 BC. From the Sanctuary of Apollo at Idalion. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Head from a statue of a bearded man with laurel wreath. 5th
Head from a statue of a bearded man with laurel wreath. Limestone. Sculpted in Cyprus early 5th century BC. From the Sanctuary of Apollo at Pyla. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Statue of a man wearing a pointed cap or helmet and a cypriot belt. 590-540 BC. Limestone. From the Sanctuary of Apollo at Phrangissa. Tamassos. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Hieroglyphic writing of the tomb of Nykaiankh. Egypt
Hieroglyphic writing. Limestone architrave of the tomb of Nykaiankh with text inscribed with a prayer. Detail. The deceased is a priest of the Sun Temple of King Userkaf. 5th Dynasty. Old Kingdom

Queen Ahmes-Merytamun. Egypt
Limestone bust of Queen Ahmes-Merytamun, wife of Amenhotep I. Depicted with Hathor-wig. 1550 BC. New Kingdom. 18th Dynasty. From the temple of Karnak. Thebes. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Tombstone of Neferseshempepy. Egypt
Tombstone of Neferseshempepy, depicted with a scepter and staff with a hieroglyphic inscription. Limestone. 2150 BC. Early Dynastic or Old Kingdom. From Dendera. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

King Shamshi-Adad V
Stela of Shamshi-Adad V (824-811 BC). King of Assyria. From the Temple of Nabu, from Nimrud (Iraq). Detail. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Kaitep and his wife Hetepheres. Seated sculptures of polychromed limestone. 2300 BC. 5th - 6th Dynasties. Early Dynastic Period or Old Kingdom. Possibly from Giza. British Museum. London

Shabti of King Ahmose I
Shabti figure of King Ahmose I. Limestone. 18th Dynasty. New Kingdom. Around 1520 BC. Probably from Thebes, Egypt. British Museum. London. United Kingdom

Busts of ancestors. Egypt
Busts of ancestors. First, polychromed limestone bust, from Thebes. At background, limestone bust of unknown origin. Both dated from 1300-1150 BC

Phoenician art. Cyprus. 4th century BC. Grave marker. Limest
Phoenician art. Cyprus. 4th century BC. Classical Period. Grave marker depicting two men reclining at a banquet (top) and a couple (bottom). Limestone. It comes from Golgoi (Cyprus)

Phoenician art. Cyprus. Bearded man with votive offerings. Ca. 475-450 BC. Classical Period. Limestone. Comes from Golgoi (Cyprus). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Cyprus. Limestone male head wearing a helmet with a bird. Archaic Period. Last quarter of the 6th century B.C. It comes from Golgoi (Cyprus). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States

Egyptian Art. Stela of Intef I. Ca. 2021-1981 B. C
Egyptian Art. Stela of Intef I. ca. 2021-1981 B.C. Middle Kingdom. First Intermediate Period. 11th Dynasty. Fayum Entrance Area, Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina, Ahnas, Ehnasya). Egypt

Greece. Tiryns. Cyclopean wall
Greece. Tiryns. Mycenaean city (3rd millennium B.C.). Cyclopean wall (1400-1200 B.C.). Peloponnese

Egyptian Goddess Mut
The ancient Egyptian mother goddess Mut. Cairo Museum

The Great Sphinx, Giza, Egypt - aerial photograph. Note the site is still being excavated at this stage. Date: circa 1930s

Crystalline limestone, collected in the Himalayas, India by Dr Benza c.1837. NHM specimen number: BM 967

Sunday stone, a calendar in rock
Formed in a Tyneside coal mine in the 1800s, the white mineral barium sulphate, settled out in a water trough and during working shifts was blackened by coal dust

Nummulites gizehensis, nummulites
These fossils are embedded in Eocene limestone from 2km north-east of Gizeh, west of Cairo. Nummulites were single celled animals that lived on the sea bed

Brachyphyllum princeps, fossil plant
This specimen of Brachyphyllum princeps is from Solenhofen Limestone, Bavaria, Germany

Fossiliferous limestone
Wenlock Limestone from Dudley. Middle Silurian about 420 million years ago

Spain. Torija. Castle. Built by the Templars in 11th
Spain. Torija. Castle. Military fortress built by the Templars in 11th century

Marseilles, France - Notre Dame de la Garde basilica
Notre-Dame de la Garde (Our Lady of the Guard) basilica, in the French city of Marseilles. The church was built in the Neo-Byzantine style on a limestone outcrop at the highest point of Marseilles

Latin inscription, limestone. Shuni. Roman period, 2nd century AD. The inscription is surrounded by a wreath. The goddes of victory, Nike, is seen standing on a globe on both sides of the wrearth

Acanthus capital decorated with the head of a monster
Romanesque art. Acanthus capital decorated with the head of a monster. The church of the Annunciation, Nazareth, Limestone. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Roman Period. Funerary bust of a man. Limestone. Samaria. Israel. 3rd century AD. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Egypt. Spinx of Giza. Detail. Lions claws
Egypt. Great Sphinx of Giza. Limestone statue with lion body and human head. Is believed that represents the Pharaoh Khafra. Built as a protective guard on the banks of the River Nile. Detail

Egypt. Spinx of Giza
Egypt. Great Sphinx of Giza. Limestone statue with lion body and human head. Is believed that represents the Pharaoh Khafra. Built as a protective guard on the banks of the River Nile. Old Kingdom

Limestone kudurru from the riegn of Marduk-nadin-ahhe (1099
Mesopotamian Art. Middle Babylonian. Limestone kudurru from the riegn of Marduk-nadin-ahhe (10991082 BC). Block of black limestone. The upper portion is carved with symbols

Limestone kudurru of Meli-Shipak. Kassite Dynasty. Babylon
Mesopotamian Art. Kassite Dynasty. Limestone kudurru. Four-sided block with conical top. Right side. The text contains a deed of gift recording a grant of fifty gur of corn-land in the province of

Middle Babylonian. 954 B. C. Limestone boundary-stone or kudu
Mesopotamian Art. Middle Babylonian. 954 B.C. Limestone boundary-stone or kudurru, inscribed in cuneiform script that describes the fight between two families for the grant of land from one state to

Cube of Zoroaster. 5th century BC Achaemenid-era tower. Naqsh-e Rustam. Zoroastrian religion. Iran

Babylonian. Second Dynasty of Isin in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (1126-1105 BC). Boundary-stone. Kudurru. Limestone stela. Text. Cuneiform. Sippar, Abu Habba. Iraq. British Museum

Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. Middle Kingdom
Stela fo Sensebek. 12th Dynasty. Limestone. About 1850 BC. Middle Kingdom. He is shown with his wife an offering table and the text to the left is an offering formul

Stela of Seneferseshempepy. Hieroglyphic. 2150 BC. Dendara
Limestone stela of Seneferseshempepy. Hieroglyphic. 2150 BC. From Dendara. 6th Dynaty. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom

Hieroglyph. Sela of Amenemhat I. 12th Dynasty. Middle Kingdom. British Museum. London

Early Classical. Satyr hunting wils Animasl. Freezes. Panthe
Early Classical. Late Archaic. Satyr hunting wils animals. Panther. From the animal frieze that used to run around the top of the podium suporting Building G. Acropolis Xanthos. Lycia. Turkey

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