Relating to a hollow carved design or relief sculpture work.
From Greek koilos 'hollow' plus anaglyphic (from ana- 'up' and glyphein 'to carve'), describing sculptural technique using hollow carving methods.
Anaglyphic carving is the opposite of relief—instead of raising images up, artisans carved inward, and this technique shows up in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian artwork where depth was created by subtraction rather than addition.
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