In the open space or court which stands between the temples, are several stones of the nature of stelae or small menhirs; some have their front occupied by a human profile and hieroglyphics on the sides.
It appears on four monuments, namely, Stelae J, F, and E, and Zoomorph G.
Passing on, it will be seen from Table XVII that two of the monuments, namely, Stelae E and F, bear the date 9.
Two other Initial Series whose cycle coefficient is 10 yet remain to be considered, namely, Stelae 1 and 2 at Quen Santo.
Ahau 13 Chen onStelae 1 and 2, respectively, at Quen Santo, are purposely excluded from this statement.
Ahau 3 Yax, and two others, Stelae E and J, the date 9.
Indeed, these two monuments, Stelae 1 and 3, stand in front of the same building.
According to the writer's opinion, therefore, Stelae B and D marked two successive hotuns at this city.
Ahau 13 Yax on the ground that this Initial-series value appears on two other monuments at Quirigua, namely, Stelae E and F, with this same date.
The ruins of temples and palaces contain gigantic stone stelae of very fine workmanship, on which are sculptured human and animal figures representing hieroglyphs of the calendar dates.
Especially noteworthy are altars in the form of a turtle and stelae covered with hieroglyphs.
Stelae discovered at Quen Santo have a calendar character, which proves that Mayan science had penetrated into what was probably the home of an old Lacantun culture.
Like the vases, the stelae always varied in merit, some being refined and artistic compositions, others poor and commonplace.
The influence of the sepulchral stelae of the fifth and fourth centuries soon begins to be apparent in the lekythi, especially in the scenes of tomb-offerings.
The larger vases of Southern Italy, which similarly show by their subjects that they were only made for funeral purposes, bear a close relation to the white lekythi, and also to the Attic funeral stelae with reliefs.
The choice of subjects, indeed, differs in some degree, the subjects on the stelae relating chiefly to the previous life of the deceased, those of the vases to the actual death and burial.
The Belmore collection of Egyptian antiquities contains several stelae which commemorate the popular worship of the serpent; see Belmore Collection, pls.
Professor Maspero has drawn attention to certain stelae in the museum of Turin, which show how, even in the lower middle class, it was the animal itself and not the official god incarnated in it that was the object of worship.
Stelae of the Roman period, however, from Erment represent the sacred bull without any solar emblem, while by the side of it stands a hawk-headed crocodile crowned with the orb of the sun.
A chapel was erected to her in the orthodox form, and it is from this chapel that most of the stelae have come which have revealed the existence of the old worship.
The stelae the latter describes as being twice or three times as high as those at Copan, and always monolithic.
At the back of one of the stelae Stephens found that flints had been picked out, leaving holes which formed flaws in the sculpture.
The faces of the figures on the stelae are the faces one can see to-day in Cambodia and Siam.
The headdresses of the stelaestatues are most reminiscent of the triple tiara of Buddhist images.
The four sides are sculptured, each with four human figures in bas-relief, and it is noteworthy that this is the only example of such carving found by Stephens; all the stelae and altars being in bold alto-relief.
He says that the carvings on the stelae and altars are human heads or faces of animals, and that plants or leaves never occur though there is a free use of plumes and feathers and occasionally a plaited ribbon.
The figures on the stelae at Copan and Quirigua, in many instances have across their breasts what looks like a broad band.
The stelae were quite close together and are of such interest both artistically and archæeologically that we cannot resist the temptation of reproducing some of them from Stephens's excellent plates.
At these two places the ruins consist chiefly of stelae and altars, and the decorations of these are un-American and Oriental in character.
No American Indians could have carved the stelae there, if their general work is to be taken as a standard of the excellence they attained.
The outer side of the pyramidal mound, which thus appears to have formed a confused and rough continuous border for a huge square, littered with stelae and their altars, was broken here and there by stairways, the steps about 18 inches square.
The altars in front of these stelae are described by Mr. Maudslay as oblong or rounded blocks of stone shaped to represent huge turtles or armadillos or some such animals.
They used to go into caves to catch hyenas alive, and amuse themselves by making them run in the evening on the sands of Megara between the stelae of the tombs.
Stelae inscribed in hieroglyphic, Demotic, and Greek have been found, the most famous of these being the Decree of Canopu, belonging to Ptolemy III, 247 B.
Champollion himself, together with Rosellini, was sent by the Governments of France and Tuscany on an expedition to Egypt, and much was done in copying stelae and inscriptions.
The chapels of the Serapeum were evidently places of pilgrimage, for many votive statues and stelae have been found there dedicated to the dead Apis, "in hopes of thereby gaining his favour and the fulfilment of their various wishes.
Every dynasty whose resources were such as to justify their resumption of the work proudly recorded the fact on stelae which lined the approaches to the masons' yards.
The latter warred in Palestine and in Nubia, and marked the south frontier of his kingdom by a statue and stelaeat Semna beyond the Second Cataract.
XIV) and also on two contemporaneous stelae in the Louvre, in one of which he is in a standing position.
The various statues and stelae made of these hard igneous stones and found both in Assyria and Babylonia, though more frequently in the mother country, practically always bear an inscription.
Some only of the stelae bear an inscription to the above effect, no authorization from the king was required for the consecration of a stele in a temple.
The chronology of this period is still very uncertain, and the stelae of the Serapseum, which enable us to fix the order of the various reigns, yield no information as to their length.
The inscriptions on the foregoing stelae are made of glyphs of a uniform character.
The Assyrian kings on the British Museum stelae are represented as wearing the cross, between the signs for the moon and planet Venus, that occurs on the Sippara tablet.
Maudslay's work already cited, I draw special attention to the following stelae and altars which are so admirably figured therein.
Large monolithic stelae and altars with figures and inscriptions carved on all four sides in rather high relief, some groups pictographic.
The emblems of the first three divinities are the same as on the stelae of his father and son, i.
Other stelae at Copan display the interesting set of 6+1=7 signs which recur on so many Central American monuments and strikingly coincide in number with the all-pervading division into six parts plus the middle and synopsis of all.
A noteworthy feature, which recurs on other stelae in Copan and Quirigua, is an appendage which appears like an artificial beard attached to the chin of the personage.
Before examining the great, elaborately carved stelae which are characteristic of Quirigua and Copan, let us search the native chronicles for some clue explanatory of the purpose for which they were erected.
Here was one of the capitals of a native Ethiopian dynasty, and in the temple dedicated to Amen a number of historical stelae were set up by different kings, of whom Piankhy (about 800 B.
There are in the British Museum two stelae of the XII Dynasty (2400 B.
As regards the Saïte period, we are beginning to accumulate manystelae recording gifts to a god of land or houses, made either by the king or by private individuals.
The objects placed in these chambers were mostly offerings, but besides these were coarse stelae bearing the name of a person, and dictated to "the double of his luminary.
Petrie found the skeletons of two dwarfs, probably the very two to whom the two stelae (Nos.
Medinet Habû; but, as a rule, it was preferred for stelae and small monuments.
Its small chapel, built against the eastern slope of the pyramid, with courtyard containing a low flat altar between two standing stelae nearly 14 feet high, was found intact.
It has a slight batter; is solid, without slits or loopholes; and is decorated outside with long vertical grooves or panels, like those depicted on thestelae of the ancient empire.
Bas-relief from one of the stelae of Ahmes, at Tûrrah, Eighteenth Dynasty.
The stelae crowned with the palmette and acanthus acroteria are described below, Nos.
At an uncertain period in the fifth century the use of the acanthus-leaf ornament was introduced, and the decoration of the stelae became elaborate and beautiful.
Several large stelae with interesting inscriptions have been found in the ruins, and statues of many ages of workmanship.
Legrain, who has been engaged for several years in clearing the temple area systematically, first tapped an immense deposit of colossal statues, stelae and other votive objects large and small in the space between pylon No.
One at least of the stelae which he set up on the occasion of these feasts is really a chapel, with its architraves and columns, and still, excites the admiration of the traveller on account both of its form and of its picturesque appearance.
At the entrance to one of the tombs, for instance, he has found stelae of the usual tombstone shape let into the wall like the dedication tablets of Greek and Roman times.
This describes the distance of the stelae erected by the Pharaoh one from the other, and thus defines the limits of the territory belonging to the city which he built.
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