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Regarding stelai (Greek plural of stele), in the period of the Archaic style in Ancient Athens (600 BC) stele often showed certain archetypes of figures, such as the male athlete. Generally their figures were singular, though there are instances of two or more figures from this time period. Moving into the 6th and 5th centuries BC, Greek stelai declined and then rose in popularity again in Athens and evolved to show scenes with multiple figures, often of a family unit or a household scene. One such notable example is the Stele of Hegeso. Typically grave stelai are made of marble and carved in relief, and like most Ancient Greek sculpture they were vibrantly painted. For more examples of stelai, the Getty Museum's published Catalog of Greek Funerary Sculpture is a valuable resource
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Stele fulfilled several functions. There were votive, commemorative, and liminal or boundary stelae, but the largest group was the tomb stelae. Their picture area showed the owner of the stele, often with his family, and an inscription listed the name and titles of the deceased after a prayer to one,
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Greek funerary markers, especially in Attica, had a long and evolutionary history in Athens. From public and extravagant processional funerals to different types of pottery used to store ashes after cremation, visibility has always been a large part of Ancient Greek funerary markers in Athens.
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Liminal, or boundary, stele were used to mark size and location of fields and the country's borders. Votive stelae were exclusively erected in temples by pilgrims to pay homage to the gods or sacred animals. Commemorative stelae were placed in temples by the pharaoh, or his senior officials,
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In the mastaba tombs of the Old Kingdom (2686 - 2181 BC), stelae functioned as false doors, symbolizing passage between the present and the afterlife, which allowed the deceased to receive offerings. These were both real and represented by formulae on the false door.
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is one of nine megalithic pillar sites in the central Gurage Zone of Ethiopia. As of 1997, 118 stele were reported in the area. Along with the stelae in the Hadiya Zone, the structures are identified by local residents as
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More than 1,200 Khmer inscriptions of varying length have been collected. There was an 'explosion' of Khmer epigraphy from the seventh century, with the earliest recorded Khmer stone inscription dating from 612 AD at
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Erecting steles at tombs or temples eventually became a widespread social and religious phenomenon. Emperors found it necessary to promulgate laws, regulating the use of funerary steles by the population. The
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There are more than 100,000 surviving stone inscriptions in China. However, only approximately 30,000 have been transcribed or had rubbings made, and fewer than those 30,000 have been formally studied.
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Steles have also been used to publish laws and decrees, to record a ruler's exploits and honors, to mark sacred territories or mortgaged properties, as territorial markers, as the boundary steles of
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Khmer inscriptions are a corpus of post-5th century historical texts engraved sometimes on steles, but more generally on materials such as stone and metal ware found in a wide range of mainland
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erected a number of large stelae, which served a religious purpose in pre-Christian times. One of these granite columns is the largest such structure in the world, standing at 90 feet.
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make seven stone inscriptions commemorating and praising his work, of which fragments of two survive. One of the most famous mountain steles is the 13 m (43 ft) high stele at
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suggests this reuse was a deliberate desire to capitalize on the potency of the past. Some scholars have suggested Urartian steles may have influenced the development of the Armenian
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of famous historical figures. In addition to their commemorative value, many Chinese steles are regarded as exemplars of traditional Chinese calligraphic scripts, especially the
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created a field of some 2,700 blank steles. The memorial is meant to be read not only as the field, but also as an erasure of data that refer to memory of the Holocaust.
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with a funerary, commemorative, or edifying text. They can commemorate talented writers and officials, inscribe poems, portraits, or maps, and frequently contain the
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or several, of the gods of the dead and request for offerings. Less frequently, an autobiographical text provided additional information about the individual's life.
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Thousands of steles, surplus to the original requirements, and no longer associated with the person they were erected for or to, have been assembled in Xi'an's
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between the 9th and 6th centuries BC. Some were located within temple complexes, set within monumental rock-cut niches (such as the niche of the Rock of
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stones are vertical grave and boundary markers, erected at hundreds of sites in Ireland throughout the first millennium AD, bearing inscriptions in the
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Grossman, Janet Burnett. Greek Funerary Sculpture : Catalogue of the Collections at the Getty Villa. Los Angeles: JPaul Getty Museum, 2001. Print.
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had its origin around 400 BC and continued through to the end of the Classic Period, around 900, although some monuments were reused in the
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A number of such stone monuments have preserved the origin and history of China's minority religious communities. The 8th-century Christians of
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detailing important events of his reign. Some of the most widely known Egyptian stelae include: the Kamose Stelae, recounting the defeat of the
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Campbell, Gordon. The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Print.
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Ethiopia in broader perspective: papers of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies Kyoto 12-17 December 1997
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Stele: Upright slab of stone, worked or unworked, erected for memorial or cuitic purposes. Sometimes inscribed or decorated.
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Robinson, Edward. "An Archaic Greek Grave Monument." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 8.5 (1913): 94. CrossRef. Web.
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Hundreds of stelae have been recorded in the Maya region, displaying a wide stylistic variation. Many are upright slabs of
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Reich, Ronny; Katzenstein, Hannah (1992). "Glossary of Archaeological Terms". In Kempinski, Aharon; Reich, Ronny (eds.).
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Caskey, L. D. "An Archaic Greek Grave Stele in Boston." American Journal of Archaeology 15.3 (1911): 293. CrossRef. Web.
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constitute one of the largest and most significant sources of information on those civilisations, in particular
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decoration, but most Maya stelae were probably brightly painted in red, yellow, black, blue and other colours.
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contexts to objects from Europe, the ancient Near East and Egypt, China, and sometimes Pre-Columbian America.
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have a number of steles of considerable antiquity as well, often containing both Chinese and Arabic text.
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of North and South America that are made out of stone may also be considered a specialized type of stele.
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sculpted on one or more faces, with available surfaces sculpted with figures carved in relief and with
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Khmer inscriptions are the only local written sources for the study of ancient Khmer civilization.
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The stelae at Tiya and other areas in central Ethiopia are similar to those on the route between
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and officialdom: the top noblemen and mandarins were eligible for steles installed on top of a
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steles were freestanding stone obelisks that served a variety of purposes, erected in the
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Parentage Statements and Paired Stelae: Signs of Dynastic Succession for the Classic Maya
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Steles are found at nearly every significant mountain and historical site in China. The
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that destroyed their synagogue several times, to tell us something about their world.
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in 1916), or erected beside tombs. Others stood in isolated positions and, such as the
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Egyptian steles (or Stelae, Books of Stone) have been found dating as far back as the
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I accomplished these deeds". Urartian steles are sometimes found reused as Christian
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of Scotland, often intricately carved, date from between the 6th and 9th centuries.
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and declined at the same time as this institution. The production of stelae by the
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or commemorative purposes. Stelae as slabs of stone would also be used as ancient
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Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration
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Chinese ink rubbings of the 1489 (left) and 1512 (right) steles left by the
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By Egypt Exploration Society Archaeological Survey of Egypt 1908, p. 19
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in 1489, 1512, and 1663, have survived the repeated flooding of the
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The large number of stelae, including inscriptions, surviving from
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at the locations of notable actions by participants in battle.
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1980, pp. 66ff) or Shalmaneser's stela at Saluria (Boardman,
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language. They have occasionally been described as "steles."
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made five tours of his domain in the 3rd century BC and had
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in the Maya lowlands was recovered from the great city of
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contains an unencyclopedic or excessive gallery of images
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The Cesnola collection of Cypriot art: stone sculpture
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Egyptian hieroglyphs on an Egyptian funerary stela in
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Stelae became closely associated with the concept of
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commemorating his imperial sacrifices there in 725.
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