The slab stela was an original form of the steles of ancient Egypt, but in a horizontal dimension. Some of the earliest ones from mid- to late-3rd millennium BC were painted Slab Steles. A small list of Ancient Egyptian dignitaries or their wives had a Slab stela.
Some funerary stelas were in the form of slab steles, as opposed to being the more common vertical stele.
Read more about Slab Stela: Lintel (archaeology), See Also
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“Another day. Deliberations are recessed
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—John Ashbery (b. 1927)