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Weathered and broken stele in the Grand Plaza of the Maya city of Chacchoben, Mexico, c. 700 CE. It rests at the foot of the stairs leading up to the Gran Basamento plateau where religious rituals were held...

The man depicted on the stele was represented frontally. He raises his right arm while his left hand holds what appears to be a staff. A sword hangs down at his left waist. The divine emblems of Ishtar and Sin...

Stele showing a girl holding a doll in one hand and a bird in the other, which she seems to be offering with a gentle smile to the small dog jumping up to greet her, c. 340 BCE. Harvard Art Museums.

This is a marble funerary stele. The Greek inscription reads: "Here lies the baby, Germanicus Andros, who has a spirit. He left the troubles of wisdom and effort to his mother and father." From Aleppo, in modern-day...

The Aramaic inscription says that this stele was erected in the 324th year of the Seleucid calendar (12-13 CE) by Sanashu's son, Re'n-tayar, the esteemed shepherd, for the goddess Sherua. Parthian, first century CE. From...

The Famine Stele is an inscription from the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt (332-30 BCE), which tells the story of how King Djoser saved his country.

This Buddhist votive stele made from chalkstone comes from China's Shanxi province, and it dates from c. 520 CE during the era of the Northern Wei Dynasty. (Museum Rietberg, Zürich)

Limestone funerary stele of a blacksmith. The relief shows the inside of the blacksmith's workshop with forge tools and workshop products. An assistant is rekindling the fire in the forge using bellows. He is standing...

Only this fragment of a large stele has survived. On the surface, the Assyrian and Babylonian kings were carved in relief. The cuneiform inscription narrates a political treaty between them. The faces of...

This is a fragment of a votive marble stele showing the goddess Isis. Her right arm is raised and holds a sistrum. Roman Period, 2nd century CE. From Kanlıca, Istanbul, in modern-day Turkey. (Museum of Archaeology...