| 单词 | stela |
| 例句 | The stela recounted the rise of a warrior-king named Harvest Mountain Lord who celebrated his ascension to the throne by decapitating his main rival during the coronation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In these stela portraits, the king’s clothes, chosen to represent his critical spiritual role in the society’s prosperity, generally included a headdress with an ear of maize emblazoned on the front like a star. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If, as seemed likely, it recorded when the stela was put on display, this implied that Tres Zapotes had been a going concern in 32 b.c.—centuries before any other known Maya site. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This supervision, recorded on a stela erected seventy years afterward, is the first known example in Yucatan of a Mesoamerican specialty: the chaperoned coronation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As in the Pantheon, the domed roof was a waffle pattern of recessed square panels, but here each panel was a stela—a grave marker with Ancient Greek inscriptions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They pried the stela from the ground with wooden poles, but it was blank. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Whoever had carved the stela had some knowledge of writing and mathematics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nearby, they found a stela, its wide, flat face covered with bas-relief figures. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Another stela crashed to the floor and shattered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Disappointed, Stirling took the crew to yet a third fallen stela. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z People still lived there, but the towns dispersed into the countryside; pottery making, stela carving, and monument building ceased. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hoping to turn up others, Stirling was walking that January morning to the far end of the mounded area, where a workman had noticed a large, flat, partly submerged rock: a second stela. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not only have times significantly changed but, in the great Ford outdoors, a stela from a Theosophical Society pilgrimage played a century ago could easily be imagined buried on the hillside. Review: On a moonlit night, new music and nature meet at the Ford under a Green Umbrella 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z There, a battered stone stela excavated in 1989 bears a Long Count date fragment that may refer to an unknown event around 300 B.C.E. What did the ancient Maya see in the stars? Their descendants team up with scientists to find out 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Among the crosses were a dozen stone slabs, resembling stela. African-American Sacrifice in the Killing Fields of France 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z But this time he headed toward the popular Greek and Roman galleries, where he stopped before a Greek stela memorializing the death of a child, from the fifth century B.C. Speed Walking with the Sculptor Charles Ray 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The relief sculpture is a nearly 2-foot-tall fragment of a large limestone stela, a commemorative slab carved to mark the warrior ruler’s authority. Column: A looted Maya sculpture sparks a storm over its planned sale at auction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z The stela, which will travel to London, stated that 10% of the taxes collected on all goods imported from the “Sea of the Greeks” into the city were to be donated to an Egyptian temple. Sunken treasures from ancient Egypt heading to British Museum 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z Since the stela is incomplete, the name of the ajaw and his leader is unknown. Maya Shrine Reveals Arrival of ‘New World Order’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Babylon; a bowl and a stela of storm-god, both with incised inscriptions; doubtless spoil of war or tribute brought from Syria. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z In a hieroglyphic stela lately discovered at Saqqârah, and now in the Gizeh Museum, we read of an earlier parallel to the Tyrian Camp at Memphis seen by Herodotos. The Egypt of the Hebrews and Herodotos 2012-02-14T03:00:25.940Z To Stuart’s knowledge, the other pieces of the stela remain missing. Column: A looted Maya sculpture sparks a storm over its planned sale at auction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z In a stela found at Thebes it is recorded that Barneses XII., while on his way through Mesopotamia to collect tribute, was so enraptured with the charms of a chieftain's daughter that he married her. The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z Maya epigrapher David Stuart of the University of Texas at Austin flew to El Achiotal to decipher the hieroglyphs on the back of the stela. Maya Shrine Reveals Arrival of ‘New World Order’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z The bowl is inscribed round the outside, the stela on the back. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z We brought back the statue of Akhenaton holding a stela. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Indiana Jones and One-Time Mubarak Ally, Tries to Cozy Up to Pro-Democracy Activists 2011-07-13T18:15:12.033Z “There was no legal way for the stela to leave Guatemala in the 1960s or after,” she wrote this week on her website, Anonymous Swiss Collector. Column: A looted Maya sculpture sparks a storm over its planned sale at auction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z He built a temple far up the Nile at Wadi Halfa and there set up a stela commemorating his victories over the tribes of Nubia. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The top fragment of the stela features the partial image of a man holding a serpent bar, a traditional symbol of a ruler. Maya Shrine Reveals Arrival of ‘New World Order’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Ekrek; a fragmentary inscription in relief and an incised inscription on a stela of very late appearance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Her throne, as on the Sendschirli stela, exhibits a ring surmounting its high back, to the side of which a group of four circles or disks are attached. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations What walls these were the stela does not state, but the evidence from the pottery would support the idea that they were the great town walls. El Kab The word stela means merely a memorial pillar or tombstone; and in this room the reflective mind will find much food for meditation. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 There was also a date inscribed on the stela, but reading it was "one of the most difficult translation jobs I’ve ever been part of," says Stuart. Maya Shrine Reveals Arrival of ‘New World Order’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z 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. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 At the sides of the stela serpents' heads alternate with diminutive grotesque figures. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The inscription of this XIIth dynasty sandstone stela from the cemetery must be divided in the middle. El Kab Another stela contains the jackal, or genius of the departed, with propitiatory offerings from his friends. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 The researchers are particularly struck by the fact that, based on the offerings found in the shrine, the stela fragments depicting a vassal lord of Tikal were venerated until around 600 or 650 A.D. Maya Shrine Reveals Arrival of ‘New World Order’ 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z He turned about and, stretching his arms across the top of the stela, hid his face and surrendered. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The cord, which is knotted together at the base of the stela, appears to pass around it. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations Limestone stela of the end of the XIIth dynasty, from the cemetery, dedicated by a certain Sabna to his father, who had the same name and was a prophet of Amon. El Kab Near to this is another stela of great beauty, engraved in low relief and cavo-relievo, coloured. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852 The walls were decorated with scenes of offerings, and the entire decoration of the tomb converged towards the niche, as that of the mastaba converged towards the stela. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt They said nothing, looking a little awed at the soldier and puzzled at the stela. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The mere presence on the stela, of the figure of the ruler, would suffice to convey the certainty that the count of the four year-signs was understood to be present. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The pieces, 53 and 54, seem to be parts of a stela; 50 and 55 are from the bases of limestone statues. El Kab The stela of Meneptah, on which the name of "Israelites" occurs, implies that they had already been lost to sight in the desert. Early Israel and the Surrounding Nations They are placed to right and left of the stela; that is to say, on either side of the door which leads to the dwelling of the dead. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The soldier saw them without seeming to see and, moving toward the tablet, a four-foot stela of sandstone, planted himself against its inscribed face, and, resting his pike, contemplated the west. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt It is obvious, therefore, that the glyphs are not the four calendar year-signs and reflection shows, indeed, that it would have been quite superfluous to carve these repeatedly on a stela. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The dwarf pillar with the mysterious cup is reflected by the Nubians, who hollow out the upper part of the stela to a depth of eight or ten inches without adding any ornament. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 There was a cone of stone at the entrance between a stela of gold and one of emerald, and Matho kissed his right hand as he passed beside it. Salammbo In many cases there was no external chapel; the stela, placed in the basement, or set in the outer face, alone marking the place of offering. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The soldier kept his place before the stela and contemplated the distance. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt There are several other smaller carved monoliths, one of which usually lies in front of a stela. The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations The soldier, blanched and shaken, took a step forward as if to speak, but some realization brought him back to rigid attention against the stela. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Precisely as the stela epitomised the whole chapel, so did the sarcophagus and coffin epitomise the sepulchral chamber, thus forming, as it were, a vault within a vault. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The serdab, therefore, was transformed, and combined with the stela of the ancient mastabas. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt The soldier looked and the shock of recognition drew him a pace away from the stela. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt These tombs are built with large bricks, a niche and a stela sufficing for the reception of sacrificial offerings. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt As a matter of fact, the stela symbolised the door leading to the private apartments of the dead, a door closed and sealed to the living. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt |
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