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词汇 stele
释义 stele
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈstiː.li/ us /ˈstiː.li/pluralstelae(also stela, uk /ˈstiː.lə/ us /ˈstiː.lə/)
a vertical piece of stone with writing cut into it, often used in the past as a gravestone (= a stone that shows where a dead person is buried): (尤指过去用作墓碑的)石碑
At the base of Tikal's North Acropolis stands a row of tall carved stones, or stelae.在蒂卡尔北卫城的底部,矗立着一排高大的雕刻石,或者说石碑。
A foundation gave the museum money to put the stele back together.一个基金会为博物馆提供了资金,把石碑重新组装起来。
 
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Most stelae include the date of their creation.
The stone tablets, or stelae, confirm the city as Heraklieon.
A commemorative stele has been erected to honor Yu the Great.
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If individual soldiers or battalions are mentioned, they are in smaller script, or they are on stelae that do not mention a commanding superior.
Second, all of the stelae in the group have texts or iconographic content.
The reference would be to white stuccoed non-effigy censers used to burn incense near stelae and then left at their place of use.
Yaxchilan stelae often included ancestor cartouches above the ruler.
Monuments include structures and large sculpture such as stelae that were carved with information about cosmologies and hierarchies of power.
As public monuments, the stelae follow the conventions of an artistic language that was invented in order to make public declarations.
That said, the stele, a piece of black granite, about 4 high and 2 across, mounted on a 2 high square base, was unveiled.
He believed that the glyphs, ornaments, idols, stelae, and altars were built up of numerical symbols and dedicated to number worship.
On stelae, the ruler was shown holding military or ritual objects.
It is difficult in those cases to claim that the absence of stelae during a particular period is indicative of anything meaningful.
One is oral tradition, the other is his stelae.
His description suggests the stelae were lying on their sides in the sixteenth century.
They are tall, free-standing, pillar-like stelae with tapering form, usually with a rectangular cross-section and pictorial narrative scenes carved on all four sides in registers.
Following the unveiling of the stele, the closing ceremonies began, which essentially reversed the opening ones.
This liveliness, however, is tempered in both stelae.
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