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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 both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted.
Ezana Stone – Stele still standing in Axum in present-day Ethiopia; Garshunography – use of the script of one language to write utterances of another language which already has a script associated with it. List of individual rocks; Mesha Stele – Moabite stele commemorating Mesha's victory over Israel (c. 840 BCE)
The Carpentras Stele is a stele found at Carpentras in southern France in 1704 that contains the first published inscription written in the Phoenician alphabet, and the first ever identified (a century later) as Aramaic. [2] [3] It remains in Carpentras, at the Bibliothèque Inguimbertine, in a "dark corner" on the first floor. [4]
The Lapis Niger (Latin, "Black Stone") is an ancient shrine in the Roman Forum. Together with the associated Vulcanal (a sanctuary to Vulcan ) it constitutes the only surviving remnants of the old Comitium , an early assembly area that preceded the Forum and is thought to derive from an archaic cult site of the 7th or 8th century BC.
The monument of Hegeso would have been viewed within a peribolos tomb, facing the Street of Tombs on the left of the stele for Koroibos of Melite, a deme in the west of Athens. Though his rosette stele only lists Koroibos, his sons, and grandson (up to possibly five generations) in the inscription, most label Hegeso as the wife of Koroibos.
Matzevah or masseba [1] (Hebrew: מַצֵּבָה maṣṣēḇā; "pillar") or stele (Greek: στήλην stílin) in the Septuagint, is a term used in the Hebrew Bible for a sacred pillar, a type of standing stone. The term has been adopted by archaeologists for Israelite and related contexts, such as the Canaanite and the Nabataean ones.
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Alvaro Semedo was the first European to visit the stele (some time between 1625 and 1628). [9] Nicolas Trigault's Latin translation of the monument's inscription soon made its way in Europe, and was apparently first published in a French translation, in 1628. Portuguese and Italian translations, and a Latin re-translation, were soon published ...