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  • a collection of 8,099 life-size Chinese terra cotta figures of warriors and ... Katy, Texas has 6,000 1/3 scale replica terra-cotta soldiers displayed in ...
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  • decorations, usually cast in iron or terra cotta, and ranging from organic ... decorations, usually cast in iron or terra cotta, and ranging from organic ...
    24 KB (3,459 words) - 04:09, 4 November 2022
  • Zeus. In and around the workshop, tools, terra-cotta molds, and other artifacts ... excavations of Ancient Olympia, including terra-cottas, sculptures, bronzes ...
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  • reddish tints, ranging from pink to dark red (terra cotta), with additional manganese imparting a purplish hue. Red sandstones are also seen in the Southwest ...
    7 KB (1,047 words) - 01:20, 21 April 2023
  • tables, etc., these all in stone or plastered terra-cotta. (b) Sacred furniture, such as models or actual examples of ritual objects; of these we have ...
    21 KB (3,303 words) - 06:22, 15 June 2023
  • thumb|250px|Two Vases Decorated with Acrobats, Terra Cotta, Western Han Period (206 B.C.E. – 9 C.E.) displayed in the Cernuschi Museum, Paris.]] ...
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  • Nigeria. The statues were made in bronze and terra cotta, and were so naturalistic that Frobenius concluded that they could not have been made by Africans ...
    10 KB (1,463 words) - 07:46, 6 March 2023
  • describing the illness and its cure and terra cotta votives depicting the ... form of these votive offerings … were terra-cotta representations of individual ...
    21 KB (3,342 words) - 03:52, 18 August 2023
  • gold pendants, charred ashes of terra-cotta cakes and pottery, bovine ... A complete set of terra-cotta gamesmen, comparable to modern chessmen ...
    37 KB (5,691 words) - 16:48, 25 October 2023
  • forms. In larger reliefs marble, bronze, and terra-cotta have often been used. In smaller reliefs, precious metals, stones, and materials such as ivory ...
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  • A pithos is a very large jar, usually made of rough-grained terra cotta, used for storage. containing Contra M.L. West, Works and Days, p.168 ...
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  • cooking surface. Some unglazed ceramics, such as terra cotta, have a porous surface that can hold water or other liquids during the cooking process, ...
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  • north slope of the Acropolis contains many terra-cotta figurines representing maidens, small-boys and sleeping babies. A number of votives in the forms ...
    23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
  • [[Image:Eastern Columbia Building entrance.jpg|thumb|300px|Terra cotta [[Sunburst (design)|sunburst design]] in gold behind sky blue and deep ...
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  • Ohio. The monument is decorated with five terra cotta bas relief panels by sculptor Caspar Buberl, depicting various stages in Garfield's life ...
    23 KB (3,377 words) - 21:14, 20 March 2024
  • [[Image:Hanuman in Terra Cotta.jpg|thumb|200px|Sculpture of Hanuman carrying the Dronagiri mountain, sculpted in Terra cotta]] * Rama is the hero ...
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  • firing is often used for making earthenware or terra cotta flower-pots, while less porous pottery may be used for cooking and eating. ...
    28 KB (4,471 words) - 22:01, 30 November 2022
  • in alto-relievo or bass-relief, in metal, stone, terra-cotta, plaster-of-paris, or other plastic composition". B. Zorina Khan, The Democratization ...
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  • from classical antiquity, ranging from Greek terra cotta vases to Roman marble heads to Etruscan urns. The museum was a gift from William D. Walsh ...
    33 KB (4,668 words) - 10:42, 10 November 2023
  • Clay and terra cotta sculptures of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Buddhist masters, Guardians of Buddhist Doctrines, stupas, animals and other figures ...
    39 KB (5,852 words) - 23:25, 30 April 2023

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