A bas relief in the Kircherian Museum, of the parable of the sower and the seed, appropriately symbolized the sowing in the furrows of society of the good seed of the kingdom, from which should spring a harvest of righteousness.
On another sarcophagus in the same museum is a bas relief of Cain and Abel offering their respective sacrifices of the fruits of the ground and the firstlings of the flock.
The 397 costly carving and elaborate bas reliefs of many of these monuments indicate the wealth of him whom they commemorate.
The sarcophagus of Junius Bassus exhibits a bas relief of Job comforted by his friends.
In an ivory diptych, probably of the fourth century, which is figured in Marriott's Testimony of the Catacombs, is a very spirited bas relief of Adam in the garden giving the beasts their names.
It also became more ornate in form, and was frequently adorned with gems and wreathed with flowers, especially in the later bas reliefs.
These representations are 330 of every degree of artistic merit, from the rudely scratched and scarcely intelligible outline, to the elaborately sculptured bas relief on the costly sarcophagus.
Some recent Roman Catholic writers, however, assert the contrary of this to be the case, and refer for proof of the assertion to one or 354 two sarcophagal bas reliefs of the fourth or fifth century.
The accompanying bas relief, from the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, (A.
The diptychs had also frequently elaboratebas reliefs of scenes from the biblical cycle, and in the age of image-worship bore the figures of the saints to whom a corrupt Christianity had begun to pay an idolatrous veneration.
In the accompanying example from a bas relief of the fourth century the Saviour is apparently uttering the words, "Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole.
Men thene Magy tham hja navt wel forstan hede kreth, ik hav thi frejeth, jef ik bas skilde wertha ovir alle landa and folkra Fryas, and nw haste to en other sproken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
