Sentence examples for on temples from inspiring English sources

Sphinxes decorated vases, ivories, and metal works and in the late Archaic period occurred as ornaments on temples.

Lovers sculpted on temples are auspicious symbols on a par with foliage, water jars, and other representatives of fertility.

He told the poet Eunice de Souza that he discovered Jejuri in "a book on temples and legends of Maharashtra..

Although their context is usually insufficient to enable their meaning to be judged, their appearance on temples suggests a protective function.

Therefore, prediction was made possible by probing first into the past and then into the future: hence the calculations, bearing on many millennia, carved on temples and stelae.

Enriched by Mediterranean and African trade, the Saite kings lavished their wealth on temples and palaces in Sais and built near them their tombs.

This can be done on one temple extension or on both sides.

The seborrheic keratoses were on one temple and the forehead of the president.

The amount of foreign trade carried on by temples apparently was small.

Early on, Temple appeared in movies with black people — Stepin Fetchit, for one — but she didn't dance with them.

The depiction of erotic scenes on temple walls therefore had a magico-religious context.