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A Hakkari stele: An armed warrior man wearing a cap (1500-1000 BCE) Bronze Age anthropomorphic funerary stelae have been found in Saudi Arabia. There are similarities to the Kurgan type in the handling of the slab-like body with incised detail, though the treatment of the head is rather more realistic. [15]
A stele (/ ˈ s t iː l i / STEE-lee) or stela (/ ˈ s t iː l ə / STEE-lə) [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. Stelae were created for many ...
The anthropomorphic being represented on the stela has, as Lumbreras describes it, serpent, eagle and feline attributes. This would be the message of shamanic transformation to which Burger refers. [ 33 ] [ 69 ] Likewise, given that the personage is carrying a San Pedro cactus in a ceremonial plaza, this fact accentuates the argument that "the ...
The stele (plural: stelae), as it is called in an archaeological context, is one of the oldest forms of funerary art.Originally, a tombstone was the stone lid of a stone coffin, or the coffin itself, and a gravestone was the stone slab (or ledger stone) that was laid flat over a grave.
The anthropomorphic depiction of various deities apparently started in the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, possibly as a consequence of the influx of foreign stimuli initiated with the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley, and the rise of alternative local faiths challenging Vedism, such as Buddhism, Jainism and local popular cults. [9]
The stele is a fairly typical example of a Theban offering stele from the late Third Intermediate Period, [7] dating to the late 25th Dynasty/early 26th Dynasty. [8] It was originally discovered in 1854 as part of a large burial of priests of Montu at Deir el-Bahari in Luxor, Ottoman Egypt, and included the coffin of the dedicant, Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i.
The term's English translation Bell Beaker was introduced by John Abercromby in 1904. [ 1 ] Bell Beaker culture lasted in Britain from c. 2450 BC, with the appearance of single burial graves, [ 2 ] until as late as 1800 BC, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] but in continental Europe only until 2300 BC, when it was succeeded by the Únětice culture .
The first type consists of flat stelae which depicting daggers, arc, and geometric and human representations. The second type of stelae is anthropomorphic stelae. In this group human chest and reversed “X” and “W” and two circles are depicted. The third groups are cylindrical stelae. The height of these group ranges between 0.5m and 1.80m.