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One of more than half a dozen steles located on the Waterloo battlefield. A stele (/ ˈ s t iː l i / STEE-lee), from Greek στήλη, stēlē, plural στήλαι stēlai, [Note 1] is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or ...
The last stele erected in Axum was probably the so-called King Ezana's Stele, in the 4th century CE. King Ezana (c. 321 – c. 360), influenced by his childhood tutor Frumentius , introduced Christianity to Axum, precluding the pagan practice of erecting burial stelae (it seems that at the feet of each obelisk, together with the grave, there ...
The Merneptah Stele, also known as the Israel Stele or the Victory Stele of Merneptah, is an inscription by Merneptah, a pharaoh in ancient Egypt who reigned from 1213 to 1203 BCE. Discovered by Flinders Petrie at Thebes in 1896, it is now housed at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .
Present location: Armstrong Auditorium (Edmond, Oklahoma) The Tel Dan Stele is a fragmentary stele containing an Aramaic inscription which dates to the 9th century BCE.
King Ezana's Stele is a 4th century obelisk in the ancient city of Axum, in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The monument stands in the middle of the Northern Stelae Park , which contains hundreds of smaller and less decorated stelae .
Dream Stele as recorded by Lepsius. The Dream Stele, also called the Sphinx Stele, is an epigraphic stele erected between the front paws of the Great Sphinx of Giza by the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose IV in the first year of the king's reign, 1401 BC, during the 18th Dynasty.
The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin is a stele that dates to approximately 2254–2218 BC, in the time of the Akkadian Empire, and is now at the Louvre in Paris. The relief measures 200 cm. in height (6' 7") [ 1 ] and was carved in pinkish sandstone, [ 2 ] with cuneiform writings in Akkadian and Elamite .
Location of the Olmec heartland relative to the southern Maya area. At the Middle Preclassic city of Nakbe in the central lowlands, Maya sculptors were producing some of the earliest lowland Maya stelae, depicting richly dressed individuals. [78] Nakbe Stela 1 has been dated to around 400 BC.