| Worn walls reformed themselves into a series of buttresses and rounded finials, bearded caryatids, zoomorphic statues. |
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| Other materials found during the digs were a flint knife, zoomorphic penannular brooch, decorated bone comb, bronze age pottery and arrowheads. |
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| While not well preserved, the elegant carving of the zoomorphic chair displays elongated proportions similar to those seen on the Megiddo ivory. |
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| By contrast, anthropomorphic and zoomorphic images proliferated in the secular arts. |
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| Set on waist-high stands, the colorful abstract objects, some with gold and silver metallic glazes, at first suggest zoomorphic shapes or architectural forms. |
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| The zoomorphic and anthropomorphic letters in the artist's colophon are a manifestation of his rich imagination. |
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| Examples of these zoomorphic brooches are the stag and fish. |
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| The diverse themes represented in the decoration include mythical and historical figures, folk tales, zoomorphic imagery, plants, flowers, birds, and other animals. |
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| While the story, the script, and the five ornate zoomorphic initials accord well with our expectations of the elite Komnenian book culture, the images seem incongruous. |
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| As well as gazelle-like quadrupeds, other zoomorphic motifs such as elephants, lions, hares, birds or fish are depicted on the strainers. |
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| There also exist zoomorphic masks of geometric appearance that represent antelope, warthogs or gorilla. |
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| The devices and motifs of ornamental sculpture fall into three main categories: abstract, zoomorphic, and botanical. |
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| Initial letters in the manuscripts were illuminated, usually with intricate ribbon and zoomorphic designs. |
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| Geometrical compositions are dominant among the strainer designs of this period followed by zoomorphic and epigraphic motifs. |
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| The body is globular with a zoomorphic tubular spout rising from its shoulder. |
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| The calotte of the lid, all of which is also engraved, depicts a sequence of octagonal medallions containing zoomorphic designs. |
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| The arches are supported by decorative corbels bearing sculptural very varied and diverse, which include protomes anthropomorphic and zoomorphic. |
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| The slow-moving process, its disconcerting result and the zoomorphic nature of these machines raise the question of mourning. |
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| The generic term zun designates wine vessels that vary in shape from the simple chalice to more zoomorphic forms. |
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| The neck has two rings to anchor the handle, which is made up of two short chains and a rigid part with a zoomorphic figure at either end. |
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| The human face masks are often surmounted by a zoomorphic form that demonstrates the skill of the carver but may also carry symbolic meaning. |
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| There are Corinthian capitals with zoomorphic decoration and polygonal capitals with geometrical decoration. |
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| The zoomorphic handle depicts the fight of a tiger and an elephant and is fully inlaid with pure gold. |
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| Blacksmiths also sculpted other anthropomorphic and zoomorphic masks out of wood but which served only for dancing. |
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| Motifs were predominantly geometric with some anthropomorphic or zoomorphic forms. |
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| The amoeboid form is unthinkable without them, and not only for their zoomorphic suggestiveness. |
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| Placed on tall pedestals, these slender silhouettes of zoomorphic allure refer both to the migration of symbols and forms such as the economic circulation of objects. |
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| Their surfaces were ornamented with zoomorphic and theriomorphic elements set against intricate backgrounds of geometric meanders, spirals, and quills. |
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| Not only is it able to climb a vertical wall, it can even manage one with an overhang. Nor are clever ways of moving the only use for zoomorphic robots. |
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| Among those used are the zoomorphic masks that evoke an analogy between the physical perfection of wild animals and the stamina and vitality of the young men. |
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| The Mambila masks were mainly zoomorphic and represented: the owl who signaled death, the dog dedicated to the hunt, and the crow that was a taboo animal. |
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| Each sleeve is decorated around the shoulders slightly differently from the other with plant and floral elements mixed with stylised zoomorphic motifs. |
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| Most have geometric or zoomorphic design, whereas this one is decorated with a dense and complex foliate pattern. |
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| There are thousands of transurban gurgles, metaphors of zoomorphic sexualities that are emerging and still yet to appear. |
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| There are several major initials which are historiated, zoomorphic, or decorated. |
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| Link: Various zoomorphic sculptures and references made to taxes on pigs and their by-products in different municipal registers in the region prove that pig-breeding has been important in this area for a very long time. |
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| The pagan Anglo-Saxons' art was similarly characterized by abstract patterning, but the ornamental vocabulary differed interlacing patterns, including elaborate zoomorphic interlace, were common. |
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| I saw dolphins flying over plumed serpents and peacocks swimming in the liquid magma and zoomorphic scriptures filigreeing my boots when someone sent to me a white pareo from Africa to undertake my trip. |
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| Richardson looks at zoomorphic motifs as well as other details. |
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| The few Merovingian illuminated manuscripts that have survived, such as the Gelasian Sacramentary, contain a great deal of zoomorphic representations. |
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| They are cast with complex patterned and zoomorphic decoration, but avoid the human figure, unlike the huge figures only recently discovered at Sanxingdui. |
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| Major Maya sites from this era include Copan, where numerous stelae were carved, and Quirigua where the largest stelae of Mesoamerica are located along with zoomorphic altars. |
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| The zoomorphic Hindu god Ganesha has the head of an elephant. |
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| Some of them are traditional ones, but most of them are contemporary ones, such as, many of his own creation such as Zoomorphic, Beladi, Figural and Massoudy. |
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