And prively he doth his shippes dighte, And shapeth him tostele a-wey by nighte.
We may conjecture that the monument was in reality a stele containing the king in an arched frame, with the right hand raised above the left, which is the ordinary attitude, and an inscription below commemorating the occasion of its erection.
The stele of Shamas-Vul contains one allusion to a hunting exploit, by which we learn that this monarch inherited his grandfather's partiality for the chase.
In his stele he shows no originality; for it is the mere reproduction of a monument well known to his predecessors, and of which we have several specimens from the time of Asshur-izir-pal downwards.
The stele of Jehawmelek, king of Gebal, found here, is one of the most important of Phoenician monuments.
Moloch who appears from the stele of Jehawmelek to have been with Baalit the chief deity of the city.
Neither Messerschmidt’s paper, nor Scheil’s (who describes thestele in the Recueil des Travaux, XVIII.
The stele affirms that the Medes alone took Niniveh, but that they were called in by Marduk, the Babylonian god, to assist Nabopolassar and avenge the deportation of his image by Sennacherib to Niniveh.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from an Alexandrian stele in the Gîzeh Museum.
The seuenthe (eighth), to stele nor depryue no mannes goodes by thefte.
Naye (quod the curate) he that dyd stele the goose sitteth nat.
It is there described as "a harnesse given unto the King's Maiestie by Th^e Empero^r Maximilian w^t a Base of stele and goldesmythes worke.
The mountains of the horizon supporting a cow's head as a surrogate of Hathor, from a stele found at Teima in Northern Arabia, now in the Louvre (after Sir Arthur Evans, op.
The fact that they were dedicated to the service of the gods is evidenced by a stele in the museum at Boulak, on which is represented Osiris enthroned with a flabellifer behind, waving the long-handled fan.
A lovely stele from Rhodes gives us a family group.
The fine cast of the Lion of Chaeronea should also be brought up, and so should the stele with the marvellous portrait of the Roman slave.
Upon a Theban stele we find the following words addressed to Amen-Ra: "I am one of those who follow thee when thou goest abroad.
There are some chambers in which the walls are bare and the stele engraved, but there are none where the walls are carved and the stele plain.
This seems clearly proved by the following passage from the famous stele discovered by Mariette at Gebel-Barkal, upon which the Ethiopian conqueror Piankhi-Mer-Amen celebrates his victories and the occupation of Egypt from south to north.
In the necropolis of Memphis, the door of nearly every tomb is turned to the east,[150] and there is not a single stele which does not face in that direction.
Stele in the Boulak Museum, showing tombs with gardens about them.
At the foot of the stele upon which the dead man was represented sacrificing to Osiris, the god of the dead, was placed a table for offerings, upon which the share intended for the double was deposited and the libations poured.
Nothing could be more simple than the course of proceeding of the earlier architects, whose services and high social position are indicated for us by more than one stele from the Ancient Empire.
We see, then, that the stele is the one indispensable part of this complicated whole.
Perhaps the most remarkable statement in the records, both on the Stele and in the mural writings, was that Queen Tera had power to compel the Gods.
This Stele was a great slab of lapis lazuli, cut all over with hieroglyphic figures of small size and of much beauty.
Again, she was born, we learn in the Steleof her tomb, in the seventh month of the year--the month beginning with the Inundation of the Nile.
We took with us the Stele of lapis lazuli, whose graven record was coloured with vermilion pigment.
It was not without cause that she was inscribed on the Stele as 'Protector of the Arts'.
Part of it was from knowledge common to scholars; part we read on the Stele in the tomb, and in the sculptures and hieroglyphic paintings on the walls.
The oldest temple discovered in Egypt is little more than a doorway with an altar at its threshold, and with a stele on either side of the altar.
At the right hand of the entrance of the larger temple unearthed at Nineveh by Layard, a sculptured image of the Assyrian king, with his arm uplifted, was on a doorway stele just outside.
Frequently these stele doorways,[492] with the king represented on the threshold, had inscriptions on them giving the story of the new conquests, with an ascription of honor to the covenant god by whose power they had been wrought.
Lebanon, and to the great sea of the Westland, and that at the mountains of Ammanus he made and set up a stele of victory, and offered sacrifices unto his gods.
This is known as the Stele of Canopus, which also bears inscriptions in hieroglyphic, demotic, and Greek.
Another famous cuneiform relic is the Stele of the Vultures, a large portion of which is in the Louvre.
Part of the Stele of the Vultures, sculptured with a scene representing Ningirsu clubbing the enemies of Lagash (Shirpurla), whom he has caught in his net.
Thus the list of Eannatum's conquests may well have been engraved upon the Stele of the Vultures at the time the treaty with Umma was drawn up.
Upon the largest portion of the stele that has been recovered, formed of two fragments joined together,[13] we have the scene which illustrates Eannatum's metaphor of the net.
Both these Sumerian forms of garment are of quite different types from the Semitic loin-cloth worn by Narâm-Sin on his stele of victory, and the Semitic plaid in which he is represented on his stele from Pir Hussein.
This fact might conceivably be employed in favour of assigning the stele to a period of decadence when the dynasty of Shar-Gani-sharri may have fallen before the onset of some fresh wave of Semitic hordes.
As the stele was set up in Lagash, the section dealing with the distribution of that city's land would naturally be added to the historical record.
But the scene on the front of the stele is not to be regarded as directly referring to this portion of the text, nor is the colossal figure that of Enlil, the chief god of Babylonia.
Stele of Narâm-Sin, King of Akkad, from Pir Hussein 60.
The representation of the captive king of Kish upon the Stele of the Vultures may possibly be interpreted as proving that he led his troops in person, and was captured during the battle.
On the Stele of the Vultures, Eannatum and his soldiers are sculptured with thick hair flowing from beneath their helmets and falling on their shoulders.
The rite is represented upon other Sumerian monuments such as the Stele of the Vultures (see below, p.
Illustration: Basalt Steleengraved with the Text of Khammurabi's Code of Laws.
Fulofte also be lyhte of day Yit wole he stele and make assay; Under the cote his hond he put, Til he the mannes Purs have cut, 6520 And rifleth that he fint therinne.
Here herte, here yhe is overal, And wenen every man be thief, To stele awey that hem is lief; 440 Thus thurgh here oghne fantasie Thei fallen into Jelousie.
The leste lokinge of hire yhe Mai noght be stole, if he it syhe; And who so gruccheth for so lyte, He wolde sone sette a wyte On him that wolde stele more.
But you had one reply for all my objections: 'Marie de Stele is going too.
Marie de Stele could not possibly know that a Russian diplomatist would bring that woman to this ball and present her as his wife.
On the slope is a temple, a stele with the figure of a king, and an altar on the path in front.
The seven kings of Cyprus also sent gifts, and a stele of Sargon was set up in the island, which, though mutilated, is of considerable importance, and is now preserved in the Berlin Museum.
The Stele Inscribed With The Laws Of Hammurabi.
For some reason or other, the space on the stele of Hammurabi still remains blank.
It has been suggested also that the reason for the destruction of the stele and the repavement may have been either (1) the pollution of the comitium by the Gallic invasion of 390 B.
Between these two inscriptions lies in point of date the famous stelediscovered in the Forum in 1899 (G.
Their use as protective amulets is shown by a stele representing a person wearing a necklace to which is attached one of these wheels.
M572) One of the earliest inscriptions, the stele of Manistusu, records the purchase of large estates to form a possession for his son Mesalim, afterwards King of Kish.
It is generally admitted, however, that the stele of Manistusu is one of the earliest known monuments.
This part of the stele is full of rare words, or what is just as bad, words which invariably occur in the same context.
The oppressed who has a suit to prosecute may come before my image, that of a righteous king, and read my inscription and understand my precious words and may my steleelucidate his case.
To judge the judgment of the land, to decide the decisions of the land, to succor the injured, I wrote on my stele the precious words and placed them before my likeness, that of a righteous king.
One of the earliest of our monuments, the Stele of Manistusu, King of Kish, records the sale of land.
But, judging from the colophon of the Assyrian series, the scribes knew that the inscription came from a stele bearing the “image” of Ḥammurabi.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stele" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
