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Definition of Stelae
1. stela [n] - See also: stela
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stelae
Literary usage of Stelae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (1913)
"For the sake of greater clearness I will describe the sculptured stelae as an
... In its wealth of stelae and circular altars Tikal is unequalled among all ..."
2. The Mummy: Chapters on Egyptian Funereal Archaeology by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1894)
"SEPULCHRAL stelae OR TABLETS stelae is the name given-to the tablets of granite,
... The styles of stelae, the arrangement of the scenes upon them, ..."
3. A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum by Taylor Coombe, British Museum Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities, Edward Hawkins, Charles Robert Cockerell, Samuel Birch (1842)
"SEPULCHRAL stelae. This plate represents some of the forms of sepulchral stelae
or tombstones, ... These stelae, which are flat, have the top generally of a ..."
4. Memoirs by Egypt Exploration Society Archaeological Survey of Egypt (1908)
"In consequence the eleven or more stelae were not ready till the beginning of
the 8th year.2 By that time a new asseveration of the oath had been arranged ..."
5. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus.— The Group o/Niobe and her Children.— The Victory
of Samothrace.—The Demeter of Cnidus.—Funereal stelae. ..."
6. Primitive Art in Egypt by Jean Capart (1905)
"The contrast is striking when one examines the hieroglyphs on the royal stelae
of the first dynasty, which have not at any age been surpassed for dignity ..."
7. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to by James Henry Breasted (1906)
"1015-1025 Mortuary stelae of the Priest Psamtik . . . 1026-1029 LIST OP FIGURES
MM Plan of Scenes and Inscriptions in Medinet Habu Temple . ..."
8. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians: Including Their Private Life by John Gardner Wilkinson (1842)
"... is probably one of the stelae alluded to by Herodotus. * The Mare Erythraeum,
or Red Sea, was that part of the Indian Ocean without the Straits of ..."
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