Giant statues kiinda kneeling but looking up, Ben Hur movie

 In the 1959 Ben Hur movie at the start of the big chariot battle, time 2:43:00 on Tubi. 

These statues are weird… remind me of the gnoll boss miniature. Slightly oft proportions, some gands too big n blocky. Stylized tho. Squatting kneeling grimacing, looking upwards clutching their weapons and shields. One guy has an axe and helmet. Another guy, holds his tiny shield like a discus, and he has what looks like a flute... see the bearded statue guy below.

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See his axe. Note the golden dolphin fish they flipped to keep track of race laps. 

The poster even has one of the statues. 

And this freaky tree thing... it's like 4 tortured trees merged into one. Or maybe it was one gigantic tree at one time but the middle rotted away, it's hard to tell. Time 3:39 at at other times:

Trivia about the race course (circus), from wikiped: Other elements of the circus were also historically accurate. Imperial Roman racecourses featured a raised 10-foot (3.0 m) high spina (the center section), metae (columnar goalposts at each end of the spina), dolphin-shaped lap counters, and carceres (the columned building in the rear which housed the cells where horses waited prior to the race).^[133][135] The four statues atop the spina were 30 feet (9.1 m) high.

Blogs to see: https://www.peplumtv.com/ has a ton of old sword and sandal stuff, pretty cool stuff I've never seen before. Like:

Scenes from QUO VADIS (1951)

Sheids from THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN OF TROY (1927)