What is stela?

  • (noun): An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
    Synonyms: stele

Some articles on stela, stelas:

Coregency Stela
... The Coregency Stela is the name given to seven limestone stela-fragments which were found in a tomb at Amarna ... The stela dates from the late Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and shows the figures of Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Meritaten ... At some time after the stela was made, Nefertiti's name had been chiselled out and was replaced with Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten, the name of Akhenaten's co-regent ...
TT240
... He is also known from a big stela now in Turin ... The stela is dated to year 46 of the king ... The provenance of the stela is not known, but comes perhaps from this tomb ...
Bek (sculptor)
... A stela found in Aswan, made around the 9th regnal year of Akhenaten shows Men and his son Bek with the pharaohs they serve ... This side of the stela reflects the traditional artistic style of the 18th dynasty, and the only indication of the Amarna period is that the name "Amenhotep" is left out ... On the left side of the stela Bek is shown before Akhenaten, who makes offerings to his god Aten according to the inscription the depicted scene is set in the Great ...
Sekhmakh
... Sekhmakh is known from the great stela of the king, where she is depicted in the roundle ... There is also her funerary stela, found in a temple at Jebel Barkal and obviously reused ... The burial, where the stela was once placed is unknown ...
Slab Stela
... The slab stela was an original form of the steles of ancient Egypt, but in a horizontal dimension ... 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 ...