Sentence examples for figures of deities from inspiring English sources
Many excellent smaller bronze figures of deities have also been found among the ruins.
The hide was usually covered with figures of deities, tutelary spirits of the noiade, and otherworld localities, painted on with the juice of alder bark.
Wax figures of deities were used in the funeral rites of the ancient Egyptians and deposited in their graves; many of these are now in museums.
Also of interest are the intricate designs of the incense burners, the figures of deities and a few items made in part from human bones, like the odd skull bowl.
Visitors often leave glass hearts, figures of Hindu deities or other items.
Any leftover space was filled with figures of tiny deities — Mogaoku was known as the Thousand Buddha Caves — painted directly on the plastered walls or stuck on as sculptural plaques.
As he bathed, a number of deities came into being.
Slides depicted lumpy stone figures, perhaps deities of a vanished civilization.
9) includes bronze, marble, and silver figures depicting deities of various religions — and a touchingly childlike Etruscan boy warrior — as well as amphorae, steles, and helmets for soldiers unconcerned with peripheral vision.
Stone steps rose on either side of the dripping checkerboards, and on pedestals flanking the steps stood marble statues of seminude figures, classical deities by the looks of them.
In May 2008, three bronze figures of second-millennium B.C. deities were restored.
