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The Bronze Statuettes of Athletic Spartan Girl are bronze figurines depicting a Spartan young woman wearing a short tunic in a presumably running pose. These statuettes are considered Spartan manufacture dating from the 6th century B.C., [1] and they were used as decorative attachments to ritual vessels as votive dedications, such as a cauldron, [2] suggested by the bronze rivet on their feet. [3]
The Nuragic civilization in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia produced a large number of small bronze statues, known as bronzetti (Nuragic bronze statuettes), starting from the 12th century BCE. [6] The 7th-8th century Sri Lankan Sinhalese bronze statue of Buddhist Tara, now in the British Museum, is an example of Sri Lankan bronze statues.
The statue (originally single, but by the Hellenistic period often in groups) was the dominant form, although reliefs, often so "high" that they were almost free-standing, were also important. Bronze was the most prestigous material, but is the least common to survive, as it was always expensive and generally recycled.
Bronze Statuette of Athletic Spartan Girl; Brunswick Lion; Buddha Maitreya (sculpture) The Burghers of Calais; Bust of Abd al-Rahman III, Cadrete; Bust of Auguste Rodin (Bourdelle) Bust of Auguste Rodin (Claudel) Bust of Martin Luther King Jr. (Alston)
In 1955, a bronze statue of king Leonidas was erected as part of a monument in Thermopylae. Its sculptor Vasos Falireas [ el ] modeled it after the 'Leonidas' torso [ 5 ] excavated in 1925. [ 1 ] : 253 Sponsored by a group of Greek Americans, the planned site was in the modern city of Sparta , but the project was met by objection there because ...
Bronze appliqué of Spartan manufacture, possibly depicting Orestes, 550–525 BC (Getty Villa) When male Spartans began military training at age seven, they would enter the agoge system. The agoge was designed to encourage discipline and physical toughness and to emphasize the importance of the Spartan state.
The Serpent Column (Ancient Greek: Τρικάρηνος Ὄφις Τrikarenos Οphis "Three-headed Serpent"; [1] Turkish: Yılanlı Sütun "Serpentine Column"), also known as the Serpentine Column, Plataean Tripod or Delphi Tripod, is an ancient bronze column at the Hippodrome of Constantinople (known as Atmeydanı "Horse Square" in the Ottoman period) in what is now Istanbul, Turkey.
Many people identify Tommy Trojan as the symbol of the university. However, Tommy Trojan is not USC's official mascot; that title belongs to Traveler, a white Andalusian horse. Before Traveler, a real local dog named George Tirebiter served as the unofficial mascot. A statue of the dog is also a feature of the campus.