It was also turned into the female form Ἀχιλλεία ( Achilleía ) attested in Attica in the 4th century BC ( IG II² 1617 ) and, in the form Achillia, on a stele in Halicarnassus as the name of a female gladiator fighting an " Amazon ".

Image: Louvre 122006 008. jpg | A stele dating to the 23rd regnal year of Amasis, on display at the Louvre

Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the valuable statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain.

Since 1998, Harvard University wraps some of the bronze and marble statues on its campus, such as this " Harvard Bixi | Chinese stele ", with waterproof covers every winter, in order to protect them from erosion caused by acid rain ( or, actually, acid snow )

The sixth Babylonian king, Hammurabi, enacted the code, and partial copies exist on a human-sized stone stele and various clay tablets.

One nearly complete example of the Code survives today, on a diorite stele in the shape of a huge index finger, tall ( see images at right ).

Various copies of portions of the Code of Hammurabi have been found on baked clay tablets, some possibly older than the celebrated diorite stele now in the Louvre.

The Prologue of the Code of Hammurabi ( the first 305 inscribed squares on the stele ) is on such a tablet, also at the Louvre ( Inv # AO 10237 ).

Some gaps in the list of benefits bestowed on cities recently annexed by Hammurabi may imply that it is older than the famous stele ( it is currently dated to the early 18th century BC ).

The Books of Samuel, 1 Kings, and 1 Chronicles are the only sources of information on David, although the Tel Dan stele records " House of David ", which some take as confirmation of the existence in the mid-9th century BCE of a Judean royal dynasty called the " House of David ".

One of the first written laws in the world, the Code of Hammurabi was inscribed on a stele and placed in a public place so that all could see it, although it is thought that few were literate.

The Greek historian Herodotus stated that the Etruscans came from Lydia, repeated in Virgil's epic poem the Aeneid, and Etruscan-like language was found on the Lemnos stele.

According to Pausanias and the Greek historian Polybius, an inscribed pillar ( stele ) was erected near the altar of Zeus on Mt.

He was significant enough that his name is mentioned on a stele erected by Mesha, king of Moab, who records his victory over a son of Omri — but omits the son's name.

The Moabite Mesha stele ( on display in the Louvre ) makes reference to the oppression of Moab by " Omri King of Israel ".

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

< div > The full length of the hieroglyphic text and the total size of the original stele, of which the Rosetta Stone is a fragment, can be estimated based on comparable stelae that have survived, including other copies of the same order.

A stele of the late 3rd century BCE from the small Boeotian city of Akraiphia, on Lake Copais, provides us with a list of fish prices.

This allowed to identify the depiction of a fasces on the grave stele of Avele Feluske, who is shown as a warrior wielding the fasces.

In 1901, a copy of the Code of Hammurabi was discovered on a stele by J.

A Neo-Babylonian royal inscription of Nebuchadnezzar II on a stele from Babylon, claimed to have been found in the 1917 excavation by Robert Koldewey, and of uncertain authenticity, reads: " Etemenanki Zikkurat Babibli of Babylon I made it, the wonder of the people of the world, I raised its top to heaven, made doors for the gates, and I covered it with bitumen and bricks.

The stele on the spot ( see photo ) reads:

An inscription by Ramesses II on a stele from Tanis which recorded the Sherden pirates ' raid and subsequent defeat, speaks of the constant threat which they posed to Egypt's Mediterranean coasts:

At last a spot was decided, and a stele was erected as a boundary marker.

In 1901, Egyptologist Gustave Jéquier, a member of an expedition headed by Jacques de Morgan, found the stele containing the Code of Hammurabi in what is now Khūzestān, Iran ( ancient Susa, Elam ), where it had been taken as plunder by the Elamite king Shutruk-Nahhunte in the 12th century BC.

However, one stele of Hammurabi has been found as far north as Diyarbekir, where he claims the title " King of the Amorites ".

The stele almost certainly did not originate in the town of Rashid ( Rosetta ) where it was found, but more likely came from a temple site farther inland, possibly the royal town of Sais.

Inside the temple, immediately against the pyramid wall is an offering hall where Jequier found a stone washbasin as well as stele or a false door of which only the foundations remain.

However Korean claims that part of the stele can be translated in 4 different ways depending on how you fill in the missing characters and where you punctuate the sentence.

A multilingual stele from al-Kabrīt, dating to the reign of Darius I refers to the Put as the province of Putiya ( Old Persian ) and ( Neo-Babylonian ), where the equivalent text written in Egyptian has " Libya ".

The name Israel first appears in the stele of the Egyptian pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, " Israel is laid waste and his seed is no more.

All three of these works cite primary sources no longer extant, including: 1 ) a memorial stele to Nallang ( presumably a Hwarang based upon the suffix nang ) by the 9th – 10th century Silla scholar Choe Chiwon ; 2 ) an early Tang account of Silla titled the Xinluo guoji by the Tang official Ling Hucheng ; and 3 ) Hwarang Segi ( 화랑세기, 花郞世記, Chronicle of the Hwarang ) by Kim Daemun, compiled in the early 8th century.

His stele of victory carved after this campaign records no major battles, which has been read a number of ways.

File: Anthropomorphic stele no 25, Sion, Petit-Chasseur necropolis 13. jpg | Anthropomorphic stele no 25, Sion, Petit-Chasseur necropolis, Neolithic

The monument is 18 feet high, with a solar disk and a lunar crescent at the top ; Ullendorff believes these symbols " no doubt meant to place the stele under the protection of the gods, probably of Šams, the Sun goddess, and of Sin, the Moon god ".

Severn's stele is ornamented with a Palette ( painting ) | palette in low relief, and Keats ' with a lyre.

Ancient Gebeta ( i. e. mancala ) holes in the base of an Kingdom of Aksum | Aksumite stele, Axum, Ethiopia.

A copy of the Orkhon monuments | Bilge Qağan's stele in Ankara, Turkey

Another fragmentary example of a " donation stele ", in which the Old Kingdom pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare | Pepi II grants tax immunity to the priests of the temple of Min ( god ) | Min

Yishiha's 1413 stele in Tyr, Russia | Tyr, containing the last known inscription in Jurchen script.

A bixi ( tortoise ) | stone tortoise with a stele in memory of Ma-na-jih-chia-na in Nanjing

The abandoned base for a Yangshan Quarry | giant stele that Yongle ordered to be made for his father in 1405

Victory stele of Naram-Sin of Akkad | Naram-Sin ( Louvre )

Shamash ( seated ), depicted as handing symbols of authority to Hammurabi ( relief on the upper part of the stele of code of Hammurabi | Hammurabi's code of laws )

Image: Queen Nefert-iti and Princess Meket-Aten on boundary stela, Tell el-Amarna, 18th Dynasty, 1353-1336 BCE-Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art-DSC08150. JPG | Boundary stele of Amarna with Nefertiti and her daughter, princess Meketaten, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

A stele carried by a bixi ( tortoise ) | giant stone tortoise at the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum | Hongwu Emperor's Mausoleum

File: Pergamonmuseum-Antikensammlung-Relief 19. JPG | Funerary stele of Thrasea and Euandria.

Image: Thracian Horseman Histria Museum. jpg | Thracian Roman era " heros " ( Sabazius ) stele.

Lê Lợi's bixi ( tortoise ) | tortoise-borne memorial stele

Discovered in 1777, this marble herm is a Roman copy of a 5th-century BC original and may represent Aspasia's funeral | funerary stele.

1517 stele dedicated to Vajrapani's defeat of the Red Turban Rebellion | Red Turban rebels.

Funerary stele of legionnaire Caius Largennius of the Legio II Augusta, found in Strasbourg ( district of Kœnigshoffen )( Musée archéologique ( Strasbourg ) | Musée archéologique de Strasbourg )

Syriac script | Syriac text in stele.

File: Mont Sainte Odile 051. JPG | Twelfth century stele depicting Duke Aldaric delivering the deeds of the abbey to his daughter.