Reliefs & Wall Hangings
Oedipus and the Sphinx
When King Laius of Thebes learned from an oracle that he was destined to be killed by his own son, who would then marry his mother Jocasta, he decided that his newborn son could not be allowed to live. He ordered a servant to leave him to die on a lonely mountain.
Buddha
Gautama Buddha was born in 563 b.c. in northeast India. The Buddha was the son of the King of the Sakyas. Suddhodana, who ruled at Kapilavastu, on the border of Nepal. His mother was Queen Maya. He was named Siddhartha.
The Sacred Triad Osiris, Isis and Horus - Louvre Museum, Paris 1450 B.C.
This sculpture was dedicated to the great triad of Horus, Osiris and Isis, who appear in the upper panel, with Titiaa, high priest of Amum, and his wife Aoui kneeling below to offer gifts of fruits and flowers.
King Akhenaton Offering to Aton - Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Dynasty XVIII 1370 B.C.
Akhenaton, originally named Amenhotep IV, ruled Egypt for 17 years (1367-1350 b.c.) together with his beautiful Queen Nefertiti, he was Son of Amenhotep III.
Ptolemaic Relief, Painted: Ptolemy V, Ptolemaic Period. 200B.C.
This relief shows a scene of an offering where the Pharaoh Ptolemy V offers the spiritual inner eyes of Horus, to Horus, seated on the throne. Horus was the son of Isis and Osiris. They form the fundamental triad of the Egyptian religion.
Egyptian Cat Relief
The first reference to the domestic cat appears in the eleventh dynasty. Because it was hostile to snakes, it became a sacred animal of the Sun God. In the New Kingdom, the male cat was regarded as an incarnation of the Sun God and the female cat was equated with the solar eye.
Poseidon Relief
Poseidon was above all, the God of the Sea, who was capable of calming the waves or of summoning up terrible storms and so taking the lives of those who displayed disrespect for him. One of the twelve Olympic Gods, he was brother of the mighty Zeus and son of Cronus and Rhea.
Archangel Michael - New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 1475 A.D
His name means "Who is as God". Michael ranks as the greatest of all angels whether in Jewish, Christian, or Islamic writings.
Aztec Double-Headed Serpent - Aztec/Mixtec, 15th-16th century AD, Mexico
Splendid relic of the Aztecs, who rose from squalid origins to power and riches in just 200 years, this double-headed rattlesnake serpent was used as a ceremonial chest ornament that may have been worn by a priest.