2025年2月15日 · Stela, standing stone slab used in the ancient world primarily as a grave marker but also for dedication, commemoration, and demarcation. Although the origin of the stela is unknown, a stone slab, either decorated or undecorated, was commonly used as a tombstone, both in the East and in Grecian

Some of the most widely known Egyptian stelae include: the Kamose Stelae, recounting the defeat of the Hyksos; the Victory Stele, describing the campaigns of the Nubian pharaoh Piye as he reconquered the country; the Restoration Stele of Tutankhamun (1336 - 1327 BC), detailing the religious reforms enacted after the Amarna period; and the ...

More than a dozen stelae, mostly of the late sixth century BC, feature carved images, sometimes in several registers and often combining foreign and Egyptian elements. 6 Many of the stelae belonged to Carians from the wider region around Halikarnassos and …

The most common Egyptian term for a stela is wedj, which originally meant “command” and stems from wedj–nesu, “royal decree.” Various qualifiers could be used to further classify wedj, such as wedj-her-tash – “boundary stela” – or wedj-en-nekhtu – “victory stela.”

The volume provides a detailed catalogue of 127 stelae (many funerary) deriving from the Nile Valley, now part of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The stelae are written in various scripts – Egyptian hieroglyphic, hieratic and demotic, Carian, Greek, Coptic and early Arabic – and cover a date-range of over 4000 ...

Stela (pl. stelae) is a Latin word derived from the Greek stele, which means pillar or vertical tablet. In English, the usual forms are stele and steles. In ancient Egypt, stelae are slabs of stone or wood, of many different shapes, usually bearing inscriptions, reliefs or paintings.

Round-topped limestone stela, from the tomb of Horemheb at Saqqara: winged sun-disc with pendant uraei; relief representation of Horemheb, standing with arms uplifted in adoration, before Ra-Horakhty, Thoth and Maat with remains of fifteen columns of hieroglyphs; twenty-five registers of hieroglyphs containing a prayer to Ra; traces of red ...

Stela: a stone or, less often, wood slab with an inscription and/or depiction at least on one side. The depictions and inscriptions form an independent unit, but the monument needs to be understood in its original architectural setting. Stelae in the classical Greek and Roman world tend to be free standing monuments.

In ancient Egypt, it was common for people to commission stelae with decorative images and short texts. Stelae were used to commemorate people and provide access to the dead or divine. The...

This book review critiques G.T. Martin's catalogue of stelae from Egypt and Nubia housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum, covering a temporal range from 3000 BC to AD 1150. It highlights the unique contribution of this work in presenting previously unpublished objects alongside detailed descriptions, photographs, and inscriptions.