EditorialPreixana Stela. Bronze Age. Argar Culture (2000-1500 BC). Tombstone with the figure of a warrior with sword and belt. Cervera Regional Museum. Spain.
EditorialSandstone Meroitic stela with one of the longest known texts in meroitic language. Are recognisable the names of the Queen Amanirenas and Prince Akinidad who lived during the 1st century BC at the time of Meroe conflict with the Romans. Kushite period....
EditorialHydria with red figure depicting a woman between a white stela. To the left, there is a warrior with a helmet, cuirass and a shield seated on a rock. From Cumae. Attributed to the CA Painter, c.340-330 BC. Stevens Collection. National Archaeological Mu...
EditorialEgyptian Art. Funerary Stela of the Gatekeeper Maaty. First Intermediate Period. 11th Dynasty. Reign of Mentuhotep II, early. ca. 2051?2030 B.C. Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, el-Tarif probably. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States...
EditorialEgyptian Art. Funerary Stela of the Bowman Semin. First Intermediate Period. 11th Dynasty. Reign of Intef I-III. ca. 2120?2051 B.C. Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, el-Tarif probably. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialBuddha Maitreya. Stela dated between 489-495. Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). It comes from the Shanxi Province (China). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialEgyptian Art. Stela of King Intef II Wahankh. Pharaoh offering milk and beer to the gods Ra and Hathor. First Intermediate Period. 11th Dynasty. ca. 2108?2059 B.C. Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, Dira Abu el-Naga possibly. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New ...
EditorialEgyptian Art. Stela of Intef I. ca. 2021-1981 B.C. Middle Kingdom. First Intermediate Period. 11th Dynasty. Fayum Entrance Area, Herakleopolis (Ihnasya el-Medina, Ahnas, Ehnasya). Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialDetail from the stone stela 31, is the accession monument of Siyaj Chan K'awiil II, also bearing two portraits of his father, Yax Nuun Ayiin, as a youth dressed as a Teotihuacan warrior. He carries a spearthrower in one hand and bears a shield decorate...
EditorialStela of Shamshi-Adad V. from Nimrud, Mesopotamia, northern Iraq. The king extends his right hand, with forefinger outstretched in the typical Assyrian gesture of respect and supplication towards the gods. He wears a large Maltese cross on his chest as...
EditorialFunerary stela with a relief depicting a rider with a shield (caetra) and a spear. Late Celtiberian Culture. 1st century BC-1st century AD. Limestone. From Clunia (Corun_a del Conde/Pen_alba de Castro, Burgos province, Castile and Leon, Spain). Nationa...
EditorialBabylonian. Second Dynasty of Isin in the reign of Nebuchadnezzar II (1126-1105 BC). Boundary-stone. Kudurru. Limestone stela. Relief with symbols. Sippar, Abu Habba. Iraq. British Museum.
Editorialstela fragment with four standing sculptures, 18th dynasty, reign of Thutmose III to Horemheb, temple of Pharaoh Mentuhotep II, Deir el-Bahari, Thebes, Egypt, collection of the British Museum.
EditorialEgypt. Stela of Heqaib. 22nd-21st centuries BC. Heqaib and the wife before sacrificial altar and the small figure (sevant). Necropolis of Gemelein. First Intermediate Period, 10th dynasty. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.
EditorialEgyptian Art. The Metternich Stela. Dated between 360 and 342 BC (reign of Nectanebo II). 30th Dynasty. Late Empire. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.
EditorialStela Cole, center, representing Georgia, during a dress rehearsal for American Song Contest, at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, May 2, 2022. (Rosie Marks/The New York Times)
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