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 ".

At this time Israel was apparently engaged in a three-way contest with Damascus and Tyre for control of the Jezreel Valley and Galilee in the north, and with Moab, Ammon and Damascus in the east for control of Gilead ; the Mesha stele ( c. 830 ), left by a king of Moab, celebrates his success in throwing off the oppression of the " House of Omri " ( i. e. Israel ).

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 stele was later plundered by the Elamites and removed to their capital, Susa ; it was rediscovered there in 1901 and is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.

A carving at the top of the stele portrays Hammurabi receiving the laws from the god Shamash or possibly Marduk, and the preface states that Hammurabi was chosen by the gods of his people to bring the laws to them.

It was not rediscovered until a Greek worker dug up a stele in April 1863.

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.

Originally displayed within a temple, the stele was probably moved during the early Christian or medieval period and eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid ( Rosetta ) in the Nile Delta.

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.

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

A bixi ( stone tortoise ) with a stele in honor of Yuan Shikai, which was installed in Anyang's Huanyuan Park soon after his death, was ( partly ) restored in 1993.

In fact, Yongle's original idea for the memorial was to erect an unprecedented stele 73 m tall.

On the basis of the archaeological stele known as the Parian Chronicle, Deucalion's Flood was usually fixed as occurring sometime around c. 1528 BC.

In 1993, in remembrance of the 25th anniversary of the events, a stele was dedicated with the names of few of the students and persons who lost their lives during the event.

It included a crown of stags and little Nikes and was made by Pheidias after the Battle of Marathon ( 490 BC ), crafted from a block of Parian marble brought by the overconfident Persians, who had intended to make a memorial stele after their expected victory.

Khonsu's reputation as a healer spread outside Egypt ; a stele records how a princess of Bekhten was instantly cured of an illness upon the arrival of an image of Khonsu.

Archaeological ruins and ancient texts show that handshaking was practiced in ancient Greece as far back as the 5th century BC ; a depiction of two soldiers shaking hands can be found on part of a 5th century BC funerary stele on display in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin ( stele SK1708 ) and other funerary steles like the one of the 4th century BC which depicts Thraseas and his wife Euandria handshaking ( see images on the right ).

It was replaced with a stele in 1977.

The first record of the name Israel ( as ) occurs in the Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, " Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.

The first record of the name Israel occurs in the Merneptah stele, erected for Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah c. 1209 BCE, " Israel is laid waste and his seed is not.

The museum contains exhibits from Sumer and the city of Akkad, with monuments such as the Prince of Lagash's Stele of the Vultures from 2, 450 BC and the stele erected by Naram-Sin, King of Akkad, to celebrate a victory over barbarians in the Zagros Mountains.

Shaolin abbot Zuduan ( 祖端禪師 ) ( 1115 – 1167 ) erected a stele in his honour during the Song Dynasty.

A stele erected by Shaolin abbot Wenzai in 1517 shows the deity's vajra-club had by then been changed to a Chinese staff, which originally " served as the emblem of the monk ".

* The oldest known Mayan stele is erected at the capital Tikal ( Guatemala ).

Esarhaddon returned to his capital Nineveh with rich booty, and erected a victory stele showing the son of Taharqa in chains.

Upon Esarhaddon's return to Assyria he erected a victory stele, showing Taharqa's young son Ushankhuru in bondage.

When Yishiha visited Nuergan for the 3rd time in 1413, he built a temple called Yongning Temple at Telin and erected a stele in front of it.

Esarhaddon now called himself " king of Egypt, Patros and Kush ", and returned with rich booty from the cities of the delta ; he erected a victory stele at this time, showing the son of Taharqa in bondage, Prince Ushankhuru.

The last stele erected in Axum was, likely, the so-called King Ezana's Stele, in the 4th century A. D.

Tang Chinese stele erected in 781 that documents 150 years of history of early Christianity in China.

The stele was erected on January 7, 781, at the imperial capital city of Chang ' an ( modern-day Xi ' an ), or at nearby Chou-Chih ( 盩厔 ; Pinyin Zhouzhi ).

The last period of the city is marked by the victory stele of an unnamed ruler of Aksum ( almost certainly Ezana ) erected at the site of Meroë ; from his description, in Greek, that he was " King of the Aksumites and the Omerites ," ( i. e. of Aksum and Himyar ) it is likely this king ruled sometime around 330.

Pharaoh Thutmose I of the Eighteenth Dynasty erected a stele near Carchemish to celebrate his conquest of Syria and other lands beyond the Euphrates.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Xuantong Emperor sent the Guangdong Navy to survey the Paracel Islands, and on the island they erected a stele and raised a flag.

Shaolin abbot Zuduan ( 1115 – 1167 ) erected a stele in his honor during the Song Dynasty.

A stele erected by Shaolin abbot Wenzai in 1517 shows the deity's vajra-club had by then been changed to a Chinese staff, which originally " served as the emblem of the monk ".

A stele (, historically ; Greek: stēlē ; plural: stēlai ), also stela ( plural stelae ) Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living — inscribed, carved in relief ( bas-relief, sunken-relief, high-relief, and so forth ), or painted onto the slab.

Commemorative stela | stele honouring Yuan An, erected in 117.

A stele erected in 117, with key dates in Yuan An's public life.

In honor of this, his monastery was given a new name, and two stele erected, which recorded his biography.