The ka, left, and the name stela of the First Dynasty king named Snake (Wadj), right. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - The Elite Cemetery: Week 6] Reference
The statue, called a stela, was found at Naachtun, a Mayan city 90 km (55 miles) north of Tikal. From Wordnik.com. [Mongabay.com News] Reference
A stela is a free-standing stone slab, generally rectangular in shape but sometimes with a rounded or pointed top. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Bulletin Board] Reference
The first fragment of the Yauya stela was found in 1919. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Peru: Andean Odyssey] Reference
Maya site, the first stela found there in more that 30 years. From Wordnik.com. [New Stela at Tikal] Reference
BC granite funeral stela on the orders of then-dictator Benito. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The 150-ton stela, which returned in three pieces to Axum, a listed. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
There is a date carved on the stela corresponding to the early 690s. From Wordnik.com. [Site Q Sculptures] Reference
The soldier kept his place before the stela and contemplated the distance. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
An incomplete stela quite far from the plaza caused the greatest excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to La Corona] Reference
The Uruk treasures from 3500-3000 B.C., including the basalt lion hunt stela. From Wordnik.com. [Focus on Iraq: Where Civilization Began] Reference
They said nothing, looking a little awed at the soldier and puzzled at the stela. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Scouring the mountains of northern Peru for the source of the remarkable Yauya stela. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Peru: Andean Odyssey] Reference
Obviously, the reassembled Yauya stela would be the high point of such an institution. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Peru: Andean Odyssey] Reference
This stela is to the left of a low staircase that ascends the building just behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 2] Reference
Her stela celebrates the accession of Yich 'aak K'ak' -- possibly her brother -- in A.D. From Wordnik.com. [A Puzzle in the Peten: Interactive Dig Waka'] Reference
Inspired by a diorite stela inscribed with the laws of the great eighteenth-century B.C. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! Do NOT Dig Here] Reference
Like Hammurabi's stela, the messages are expected to remain legible for at least 4,000 years. From Wordnik.com. [Danger! Do NOT Dig Here] Reference
Most of the Yauya stela, with the exception of the two light-shaded areas, has been recovered. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Peru: Andean Odyssey] Reference
The "stela guys," Hugo and Efrain, besides keeping everyone laughing, began to replicate stelae. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 4] Reference
Senusert III. won a great victory over the Asiatics in Syria; and a stela and statue belonging to. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
Hugo and Efrain (also popularly known as the "stela guys") lift stela 40 from the excavation pit. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 2] Reference
He turned about and, stretching his arms across the top of the stela, hid his face and surrendered. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The structure has an uncarved stela erected in front of it, which also has a looter's pit at its base. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 3] Reference
The most recently found fragment of the stela had been in an abandoned Yauya home in a room infested with bees. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Peru: Andean Odyssey] Reference
Actually a side panel from El Perú stela 33 now in the collection of the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Site Q Sculptures] Reference
It also alludes to a human sacrifice mentioned on the front of the stela, perhaps that of his brother-in-law in 157. From Wordnik.com. [Epi-Olmec Decipherment] Reference
Now she did not move or attempt to elude him, but as he came up the figure was but a stela to point the way to a near-by shrine. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
The mold-making process takes several days per stela and produces a latex mold they can use twice to create life-sized replicas. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 4] Reference
Stanley is now going to each stela and monument and verifying, corroborating, or making new interpretations of those hieroglyphs. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 2] Reference
Gibson does confirm that an important black basalt stela from Uruk that shows a king hunting lions was not taken, as originally feared. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Stock in Baghdad] Reference
For the next two decades, questions concerning the Yauya stela continued to bother me and so I decided to return to Yauya in August 2001. From Wordnik.com. [Letter from Peru: Andean Odyssey] Reference
Stanley, who is the project epigrapher, is busy reading all the hieroglyphs, not only on this stela but on all the stelae around the site. From Wordnik.com. [Interactive Dig Waka' - Session 2] Reference
A stela at the Egyptian museum in Cairo is seen Thursday, March 11, 2010. From Wordnik.com. [Fore, right!] Reference
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