Stone sculptures

thumb|260px|Stele N from Copán, [[Honduras, depicting King K'ac Yipyaj Chan K'awiil ("Smoke Shell"), as drawn by Frederick Catherwood in 1839]] thumb|Stele to the French 8th Infantry Regiment. Commons:Category:Battle of Waterloo steles|One of more than half a dozen steles located on the Waterloo battlefield. A stele ( ) or stela ( ) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted.

ancient Egyptian statues

sculpture in Stepanakert

thumb|An inuksuk at the Foxe Peninsula, [[Nunavut, Canada]]

thumb|280px|Babylonian kudurru of the late Kassites|Kassite period found near [[Baghdad by the French botanist André Michaux (Cabinet des Médailles, Paris)]] A kudurru was a type of stone document used as a boundary stone and as a record of land grants to vassals by the Kassites and later dynasties in ancient Babylonia between the 16th and 7th centuries BC. The original kudurru would typically be stored in a temple while the person granted the land would be given a clay copy to use to confirm legal ownership. Kudurrus are often linked to what are usually called "ancient kudurrus", land grant s

national emblem of Zimbabwe

thumb|upright=1.4|Maya chacmool from Chichen Itza, excavated by Le Plongeon in 1875, now displayed at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City A chacmool (also spelled chac-mool or Chac Mool) is a form of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican sculpture depicting a reclining figure with its head facing 90 degrees from the front, supporting itself on its elbows and supporting a bowl or a disk upon its stomach. These figures possibly symbolised slain warriors carrying offerings to the gods; the bowl upon the chest was used to hold sacrificial offerings, including pulque, tamales, tortillas, tobacc

ornate slab of stone from ancient Northern Europe

Rock statues from Jeju Island

thumb|upright|Roman marble puteal with Cult of Dionysus|Bacchic procession, late 1st-century CE A puteal (Latin: from puteus ("well") – : putealia) is a classical wellhead built around a water well's access opening.

ancient Egyptian stone artifact

sculpture made from stone

Ancient Roman funerary practice

lost statue of Mary and baby Jesus from Toruń, Poland

ceremonial axe in the Swedish History Museum

ancient stone sculpture from Papua New Guinea

21st-century BC statue from Mari, Syria

collection of three statues in Dublin

Proposed monument in Chișinău, Moldova

right|thumb|Decorated entrance to the Klácelka cave Klácelka is a man-made cave in a forest near Liběchov, Czech Republic. It is known for its complex of sculptural works made by sculptor Václav Levý. The name of the cave and the sculptures commemorate František Klácel, a theologian and philosopher. It was created during the 1840s.