Queen Amanishakheto, receiving the breath of life on a stele from Naga dating from the late first century B.C. or early first century A.D., seems to be amused.
She watched all the famous Hollywood films, but her most durable inspiration came from an account of Cleopatra found on a stele at Thebes, and from the fanciful, ultrafeminine depictions of the queen by 19th-century Orientalist painters like Alexandre Cabanel and Jean André Rixens.
Although earlier Babylonian codes are known, unquestionably the most perfect monument of Babylonian law is the Code of Hammurabi (c. 1758 bc), the main record of which was discovered on a stele, or stone monument, only in 1901 02.
(North Picene, known mainly from a 12-line inscription of about 500 bce on a stele from Novilara, is not an Italic language and may not even be an Indo-European language).
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 image of the god (usually Laozi), would be carved on the front side of a stone stele, with inscriptions on the back or side of the carving.
South of Egypt, a stele bearing Sahure's name was discovered in the diorite quarries located in the desert north-west of Abu Simbel in Lower Nubia.
And in that place there stands also a stele of each of the gods bearing an inscription in hieroglyphs.
The permanent memorial included four major elements: a stele of the same size and shape of the ship's prow, a granite wall listing the ship's company, a bronze statue of a woman looking out to sea and waiting in vain for the cruiser to come home, and a dome (dubbed the "dome of souls") onto which 645 stainless steel seagulls were welded.
