Sentence examples for a colossal head of from inspiring English sources

A colossal head of Ramses II.

Reviving the ancient Egyptian practice of carving gargantuan statues of political figures in natural formations of rock, he executed from a six-ton block of marble a colossal head of President Abraham Lincoln that was placed in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C.

A colossal head of Userkaf was found there, the second oldest monumental statue of an Egyptian ruler after the Great Sphinx, now in the Egyptian Museum.

The show's largest piece is a colossal head, combining features of the Buddha with the artist's self-portrait, molded from incense ash collected from Buddhist temples.

Countering this, James Porter has claimed that the recarving of the face of a colossal head into a niche figure is clearly evident.

Countering this, James Porter has claimed that the re-carving of the face of a colossal head into a niche figure is clearly evident.

The discovery of a colossal head at Tres Zapotes in the nineteenth century spurred the first archaeological investigations of Olmec culture by Matthew Stirling in 1938.

It is possible that this damage was caused by the initial stages of re-carving the monument into a colossal head but that the work was never completed.

Monument 99 is a colossal head in potbelly style, dating to the Late Preclassic.

An additional monument, at Takalik Abaj in Guatemala, is a throne that may have been carved from a colossal head.

But nothing caught the eye like the colossal head of William Shakespeare emerging from an African carpet.