Saints and angels are highly revered, if not adored, but graven images are forbidden.
But he is not an idolater, for he has not "made unto himself any graven image, nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above or in the water beneath or in the water under the earth."
The chief incidents and episodes would be deeply graven in the popular memory; and it is the poet's function to make the past live again.
Artists of renown perpetuated her features on canvas, on marble and on many exquisite medals, one of which has a closed book graven on the reverse, with the inscription " Elegiae " in allusion to poems she was said to have written.
Here the Nile narrows and passes the Semna cataract, and graven on the rocks are ancient records of " high Nile."