Cella Collection (page 4)

King Richard I (1157-1199) kneeling before the shrine of St Januarius. Richard was King of England from 1189 to 1199. He was known as Richard the Lionheart, or C

Penance of Henry before the shrine of Thomas a Becket
King Henry II (1133-1189) doing penance before the shrine of Thomas a Becket. Henry ruled as King of England from 1154 to 1189. He was the first Plantagenet (or Angevin) King

Source of the Ganges, India, c1840. Artist: N Remond
Source of the Ganges, India, c1840. The River Ganges originates at Gangotri Glacier, Uttarakhand

Shrine of Mohummed Kahn, near Deeg, Rajasthan, India, mid 19th century. Artist: E Finden
Shrine of Mohummed Kahn, near Deeg, Rajasthan, India, mid 19th century

Shrine in a Jain temple, Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India, c1925. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Indian Empire, 2nd series

Torii, shrine gate, Nishigamo, Kyoto, Japan

Taki-no-kannon, Japan. (Mercy of Goddess at Waterfall) site of the Kyojunji Temple. Hand-tinted picture postcard

The Yomeimon Gate of Tosho-gu Shrine, Nikko, Japan. Shinto shrine. Hand-tinted picture postcard

The Corporation of the Goldsmiths of Paris carrying the Shrine of St Genevieve, 17th century, (1870)
The Goldsmiths of Paris carrying the Shrine of St Genevieve, 17th century, (1870). A wood engraving showing the Corporation of the Goldsmiths carrying the Shrine of St Genevieve (c419-512 AD)

Shrine, 12th century, (1870). A wood engraving of an enamelled shrine in Limoges work of the 12th century. Illustration from The Arts of the Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance

Worship in Russia, 1903. An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 19th July 1903

St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Rome, Detail, 1489. Artist: Hans Memling
St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Rome, Detail, 1489. The Reliquary of St Ursula, Memling Museum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Rome, 1489. Artist: Hans Memling
St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Rome, 1489. The Reliquary of St Ursula, Memling Museum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

St Ursula Shrine, St Ursula and the Holy Virgins, 1489. Artist: Hans Memling
St Ursula Shrine, St Ursula and the Holy Virgins, 1489. St Ursula Shrine, Memling Museum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Basle, 1489. Artist: Hans Memling
St Ursula Shrine, Arrival in Basle, 1489. St Ursula Shrine, Memling Museum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

St Ursula Shrine, 1489. Artist: Hans Memling
St Ursula Shrine, 1489. The Reliquary of St Ursula, Memling Museum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

Virgin and Child, St Ursula Shrine, 1489. Artist: Hans Memling
Virgin and Child, St Ursula Shrine, 1489. Reverse of the Reliquary of St Ursula, Memling Museum, Sint-Janshospitaal, Bruges

Queen Hatshepsut obelisk, Temple of Amun, Karnak, Luxor, Egypt, 20th Century. Queen Hatshepsut reigned together with Tuthmosis III between 1479 and 1458 BC

Virgin of Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain. This Black Madonna in the Benedictine Abbey of Montserrat is said to have been carved by St Luke

Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. From the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

The Shrine of Hendursag, Old Babylonian, 1750BC. White limestone carved statuette found in Ur, chapel (private houses), repaired and reused in chapel devoted to Hendursag, god of law in Sumerian

Etruscan Sarcophagus of Funeral procession approaching a shrine. At British Museum

Parthenon Frieze, Elgin Marbles, Sacrifice Procession with Ram, c5th century BC. Artist: Phidias
Parthenon Frieze, Elgin Marbles, Sacrifice Procession with Ram, c5th century BC. The Parthenon frieze is a high-relief pentelic marble sculpture created to adorn the upper part of the Parthenon

Guardian Spirit on Frieze on Outer Wall of the Tivanka Shrine, Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka, 20th century. 12th century Buddhist frieze of Guardian Spirit on the outer wall of the Tivanka Temple in

Pagan stone head, from a Celtic shrine at Cinderford, now at Gloucester City Museum

The Betyl, a Nabatean Shrine in the Siq

Shrine and house in Kairouan, near the Aghlabite Pools

Horned head from the shrine of a King of Owo from Eastern Yorubaland in Nigeria, now in the British Museum

Pilgrim flask for the shrine of St Menas, 6th century
Pilgrim flask for the shrine of St Menas, an early Christian martyr in Egypt, from Abu Mina, Mariut, Egypt. From the Coptic Museums collection in Cairo, 6th century

Hellenistic relief of a sacrifice at a rustic shrine of a god or hero and his consort, from the Munich Glypotek Museums collection

A stele in front of the Dakhina Stupa, 2nd century
A stele in front of the Dakhina Stupa, a Buddhist Shrine, in Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, 2nd century

Painting on the outer walls of the inner shrine of the Temple of the Tooth, 17th century
Painting on the outer walls of the inner shrine of the Temple of the Tooth, where the sacred relic of the tooth of Gautama Buddha is kept, 17th century

Terracotta model of a shrine, from Cyprus, with a worshipper near an amphora in front of three horned figures

Greco-Roman temple of Apollo at Didyma, 2nd century BC
View looking to the east, showing the cella and the chresmographeion (oracle room), 2nd century BC

Stone head from a pagan Celtic shrine at Cinderford, Gloucester. From the City Museums collection, Gloucester

Buddhist shrine at Gal Vihara at Ponnoaruwa in Sri Lanka, with rock-cut images of seated, standing, and recumbent Buddha

Greek temple of Apollo, 3rd century
Greek temple of Apollo, looking east to the cella, 3rd century

Entrance to Buddhist cave-temple shrine in Sri Lanka, 1st century

Ruwanvaliseya Stupa in Sri Lanka
Ruwanvaliseya Stupa, a Buddhist shrine in Sri Lanka

Detail of stela at the Dakhina Stupa in Sri Lanka, 2nd century
Detail of stela at the Dakhina Stupa, a Buddhist Shrine, 2nd century

Wooden model of the main Shinto shrine at Ise, popular household objects in Japan. Like the main Shrine at Ise, they contain mirrors

Silver-gilt votive plaque with dedication to Mars, Romano-British
Silver-gilt votive plaque ornamented with leaf-pattern and dedicated to Mars Alator, by Censorinus, son of Gemellus. Found in Barkway, Herefordshire, England

Stone head from pagan Celtic shrine at Cinderford, Gloucestershire

The Shrine of the Augustales, Herculaneum, Italy

The Shrine of the Augustales (dedicated to deified emperors including Augustus), Herculaneum, Italy

Protective goddess on the golden canopic shrine, Tomb of Tutankhamun, Cairo, Egyptian Museum. Tutankhamun reigned between 1361 BC and 1352 BC

Selket protective goddess guarding the Canopic Shrine, Tomb of Tutankhamun, Cairo. Tutankhamun reigned between 1336 BC and 1327 BC

Isis the protective goddess guarding the Canopic Shrine, Tomb of Tutankhamun, Cairo, The Egyptian Museum. Tutankhamun reigned between 1336 BC and 1327 BC

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