Editing Relief (section)

===Mid-relief===
[[File:Banteay Srei in Angkor.jpg|thumb|Low relief, [[Banteay Srei]], [[Cambodia]]; [[Ravana]] shaking Mount [[Kailasa]], the Abode of [[Shiva|Siva]]]]

Mid-relief, "half-relief" or {{lang|it|mezzo-rilievo}} is somewhat imprecisely defined, and the term is not often used in English, the works usually being described as low relief instead.  The typical traditional definition is that only up to half of the subject projects, and no elements are undercut or fully disengaged from the background field.  The depth of the elements shown is normally somewhat distorted.

Mid-relief is probably the most common type of relief found in the [[Hindu art|Hindu]] and [[Buddhist art]] of [[India]] and [[Southeast Asia]]. The low to mid-reliefs of 2nd-century BCE to 6th-century CE [[Ajanta Caves]] and 5th- to 10th-century [[Ellora Caves]] in India are rock reliefs. Most of these reliefs are used to narrate sacred scriptures, such as the 1,460 panels of the 9th-century [[Borobudur]] temple in [[Central Java]], [[Indonesia]], narrating the [[Jataka tales]] or lives of the [[Buddha]]. Other examples are low reliefs narrating the [[Ramayana]] Hindu epic in [[Prambanan]] temple, also in Java, in [[Cambodia]], the temples of [[Angkor]], with scenes including the [[Samudra manthan]] or "Churning the Ocean of Milk" at the 12th-century [[Angkor Wat]], and reliefs of [[apsaras]]. At [[Bayon]] temple in [[Angkor Thom]] there are scenes of daily life in the [[Khmer Empire]].