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Encyclopedia: Stele

A stele (from Greek: στήλη, stēlē, IPA: [ˈstili]; plural: stelae, στῆλαι, stēlai, IPA: [ˈstilaɪ]; also found: Latinised singular stela and Anglicised plural steles) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerary or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living—inscribed, carved in relief (bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, etc), or painted onto the slab.

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How to say "Stele" in other languages:

	(Japanese)	石碑
	(German)	Stele
	(Spanish)	Estela (monumento)
	(French)	Stèle

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Stele Forest

Stele Forest (碑林; pinyin: Bēilín), aka Xi'an Stele Forest Museum or Xi'an Beilin Museum , is a museum for steles and stone sculptures which is located in Xi'an, China. Its name comes from its huge collection of steles. And people regard it as a forest of steles. History The Stele Forest was...

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Thutmose IV

was referred to in stele as the Conqueror of Syria , but little else has been pieced together of his... subsequent commission of the Dream Stele . According to Thutmose IV's account on the Dream Stele while... placed a tablet with the Dream Stele on it between the two paws of the Sphinx. Some Egyptologists...

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Nestorian Stele

The Nestorian Stele , Nestorian Stone , formally the Memorial of the Propagation in China of the...�ngguó béi, abbreviated 大秦景教碑) is a Tang Chinese stele erected in 781 which celebrates the... Nestorian Church. The stele documents the existence of Christian communities in several cities in northern...

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Stela

. The word derives from the Greek stele , "standing block". The term stela is also used in botany...

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Jehoram of Israel

. The author of the Dan Stele (found in 1993 and 1994 during archeological excavations of the site of... Jehu killed the two kings (as the Bible reports) or Hazael (as the Dan Stele reports). Preceded...

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Mesha Stele

The stele as photographed circa 1891 The Mesha Stele (popularized in the 19th century as the... history of King Mesha recorded in 2 Kings 3:4-27. The stele was discovered at the ancient Dibon now... reassembled stele are now in the Louvre Museum. With the exception of a very few variations, such as -in for...

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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

. Description Holocaust memorial under construction, March 2004 About 2700 concrete slabs ("steles") are arranged in a grid pattern on the 19000 square meter site. The steles are 2.38m long, 0.95m... around between the steles once the memorial is completed, probably in Summer 2005. An attached...

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Moabite language

The Moabite language is an extinct Hebrew Canaanite dialect, spoken in Moab (modern-day northwestern Jordan) in the early first millennium BC. Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, as well as the El-Kerak Stela; this is sufficient to show that it was extremely similar to...

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Six Steeds of Zhao Mausoleum

stoneworks is exhibited in the Stele Forest museum of Xi'an (Shifachi, Baitiwu, Telebiao and Qingzhui) and...

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Tel Dan

basalt, which appears to be from a stele erected for Ben-Hadad of Arameans, an enemy of the kingdom of.... The fragments may have formed part of a memorial stele which was placed in the wall sometime before... kingdom of Israel under Ahab and his successors around the time when the stele was believed to be...

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