sunken+relief


 * __sunken relief__** Sunken relief is where the image is made by sinking the relief sculpture itself into a flat surface. It is most notably associated with the art of ancient Egypt. To cut back all the background would be extremely time-consuming, therefore the individual compositions themselves, often in the form of hieroglyphs, were themselves set in to the stone field.[[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Sunken-relief1.jpg width="271" height="209" caption="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Sunken-relief1.jpg"]]**__