figural

ihmishahmoinen, eläinhahmoinen Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin 2009, p. 185:

The counterparts, in the Christian era, to the figural anticipation of Christ in the Old Testament were the deliverer monarchs and leaders of later times ....

Some of the Umayyads found themselves charmed by the cultures which they had conquered, so that archaeologists in Palestine and Syria have revealed an astonishing flourishing of Christian-style figural art under their rule.