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Sculpture of Ancient Civilizations

Sculptures from the great civilizations of the ancient world outside Greece and Rome, among them a painted bust of an Egyptian queen, the clay army of the first emperor of China, an Aztec calendar stone and a rock relief of Mesopotamia. A work belongs here when the cited article places the work in one of these civilizations. It excludes Greek and Roman statues. The group follows the culture the cited article names. They range from the New Kingdom of Egypt to the Aztec empire of the sixteenth century, and the group follows the culture the cited article names for each work.

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Benin Bronzes (Wikipedia)
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The Benin Bronzes are a group of several thousand metal plaques and sculptures that decorated the royal palace of the Kingdom of Benin, in what is now Edo State, Nigeria.
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Nefertiti Bust (Wikipedia)
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The Nefertiti Bust is a painted stucco-coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great Royal Wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.
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Terracotta Army (Wikipedia)
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The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China.
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Anubanini rock relief (Wikipedia)
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The Anubanini petroglyph (Persian: سنگ‌نگاره آنوبانی‌نی), also called Sar-e Pol-e Zohab II or Sarpol-i Zohab relief, is a rock relief from the Akkad period (circa 2300 BC) or the Isin-Larsa period (early second millennium BC)
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Discobolus (Wikipedia)
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The Discobolus by Myron ("discus thrower", Greek: Δισκοβόλος, Diskobólos) is an ancient Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical period in around 460-450 BC that depicts an ancient Greek athlete throwing a discus.
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