What's the difference between graven and sculpted?
Graven
Definition:
(p. p.) of Grave
(v. t.) Carved.
Example Sentences:
(1) The impact of complexity, centralisation and cost-cutting are now graven on the statistics.
(2) Early Islam defined itself against the age of jahiliyyah (ignorance) that preceded the prophet Mohammad, who smashed idols in the name of monotheism, as, before him, did the Jewish patriarch Abraham – hence the Old Testament ban on “graven images”.
(3) The first two – "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image" – come from a time when the Jews still believed in the existence of many gods but had sworn fealty to only one of them, their tribal "jealous" god.
(4) In words graven above the entrance to the old Broadcasting House, the BBC's first governors dedicated themselves to the dissemination of "whatsoever things are honest and of good report".
(5) To lie with an artform is all at once to have another god, to make graven images, to steal, and to bear false witness.
(6) Even when a teenager, Reith, a very tall man, had a face with something of the Easter Island carving about it: graven, austere, immense-jawed.
(7) The author holds that the biographic motive derives from an ambivalent internalization of the Mosaic sanction against graven images, conveyed to Freud by his father through the spirit of the Phillipson Bible.