First there came into view a circular altar, and several steles of soft stone with rude carvings in relief, which seemed to point to interments beneath, and a system of offerings to, or on behalf of, the dead.
These desires may be taken literally, as is proved by two steles in the museums of Turin and Boulak, which bear representations of tombs upon their lower portions.
Maspero has set forth the considerations which lead him to think that the staircase of Osiris, upon which the consecrated steles were placed, was the flight of steps which led up to the temple of that god.
Most of these steles were adorned with painting and sculpture; all of them had more or less complicated inscriptions.
The only remains of this necropolis which are likely to be preserved are the numberless steles which Mariette rescued from its débris.
There are a few steles and tombs upon which the dead man seems to have caused his services to be described, with the object, no doubt, of continuing in the next world his career of honour and success in this.
A priest of Apis is mentioned upon a tomb of the fourth dynasty; Osiris is invoked in the steles of the sixth dynasty.
Between these paws a little temple was contrived, where the steles consecrated by several of the Theban kings in honour of the Sphinx were arranged.
To be compared with these are sevensteles from Reims, each with a triple face but only one pair of eyes.
On a Paris altar and on certain steles a god attacks a serpent with a club.
Seven steles were found, the inscriptions of which are marked in the chambers of the plan; and othersteles were also found here, scattered so that they could not be identified with the tombs.
These steles seem to have been placed at the east side of the tombs, and on the ground level, and such of them as happened to fall down upon their inscribed faces have generally been found in an excellent state of preservation.
STYLE OF KING QA] Only three steles were found in the grave of Qa, but these were larger than those of the earlier graves.
The corner marked Kom-de-Sultan is the enclosure which was emptied out by Mariette 's diggers, because of the abundance of burials with steles of the twelfth to eighteenth dynasties.
The most interesting are twosteles of dwarfs, which show the dwarf type clearly; with one were found bones of a dwarf.
Around the royal tomb stood the little private steles of the domestics, placed in rows, thus forming an enclosure about the king.
These steles are in hard limestone, alabaster, red granite, and black granite.
I have found more steles on the rocks on both sides of the Nile, and have seen in all eight on the eastern and three on the western cliffs.
On two steles which I have noticed there, three urns are represented side by side.
Two steles erected in the approach to the sanctuary likewise recorded the seventeenth and the twenty-fourth year of the reign of the same king.
It was flanked by two steles of the fifth year of the king’s reign.
Outside this sanctuary the Egyptians set up steles near the holy caves and on the neighbouring hillside, and they built chambers and porticoes inside the temenos, and covered these with scenes and inscriptions.
After him Ramessu III (XX 1) appropriated to his own use steles set up by earlier kings which he reinscribed in the way usual to him.
Several of these steles mention by name the Retennu people, of whom we now hear for the first time in Sinai.
The people who figured most prominently in the Egyptian annals of Sinai were the Retennu, who were mentioned again and again on the steleswhich were set up at Serabit in the course of the Twelfth Dynasty.
The oldest of the mazzeboth were erected on a prominent spot outside the temenos within sight of the sanctuary; later these steles were placed along the approach to the cave, more and more crowding the adytum.
Others are on much-battered steles that were carved on the rock in the mine along the valley marked number 7 (Fig.
The last of the steles recording a mine expedition was erected by King Set-nekht (XIX 9), on the south entrance to the temple.
Steles of Medullosa in Cross Section of the Stem A, Primary solid wood; S, surrounding secondary wood.
Diagram of Steles of the English Medullosa, showing three irregular, solid, steles A, with secondary thickenings S, all round each.
Medulloseae, which are much more complex than any known at present, both owing to their primary structure and also to the peculiar fact that all the steles developed secondary tissue towards the inner as well as the outer side.
The members of this family have a very complex anatomy, with several series of steles of large size and irregular shape.
It is also to be noted that the plants of the Coal Measures had already evolved all the main varieties of steles which are known to us even now,[6] and that the development of secondary thickening was very widespread.
The anatomy of the stems is interesting, for in the different species different stages of advance are to be found, from the simple solid protostele with a uniform mass of wood to hollow ring steles with a pith.
It almost appears as though at the early period, when the Medulloseae flourished, steles were experimenting in various directions.
In actual specimens the number of these central steles is much greater than that indicated in the diagram.
A number of plants which get more complex steles later on, have protosteles in the early stages of their development, as in Pteris aurita for example, a species allied to the bracken fern, which has a hollow ring stele when mature.
A few of the shapes assumed by the steles of the petioles are seen in fig.
These include a pyramid at Saqqarah, rock inscriptions insteles at Elephantine and elsewhere, statuettes, canopic jars, cylinders, and scarabs.
Neku reigned six years according to Manetho, sixteen according to Herodotus, and this latter figure is confirmed by two steles at Florence and Leyden.
One at least of the steles 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.
Secondly, the depth of the relief varied as much as it could, from the almost detached figures of the Osiride piers to the delicate salience of the carvings upon the stelesand tomb-walls.
Like the steles they are self-contained and independent of their surroundings.
The same style, taste, and general tendency are to be found in the steles and in the decoration of the tombs.
We have already illustrated two steles of this period (Figs.
He is figured upon the steles which occupy the principal wall, as well as in various other parts of the tomb.
The Assyrians seem to have been so pleased with these crenellations that they placed them upon such small things as steles and altars.
We here find an instance of one of these arched steles erected before a fortress.
Look at the steles that bear royal effigies, at the representations upon contracts and other documents of that kind (see Fig.
At the foot of the temple on the right of the engraving there is a palace, on the left two obelisk-shaped steles and a small temple of a type to be presently described.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
