EditorialPalace of Justice, Discovery of the Stele Dedicated to Gian Giacomo Mora and to All the Innocent Victims of Ghosts and Prejudices, Milan, Italy - 31 Jan 2023
EditorialFunerary stele with Hebrew inscription. 11th century. Copy. Granite. From Monz?n de los Campos (province of Palencia, Castile and Leon, Spain). Deposit of the Museum of Palencia. Sephardic Museum. Toledo. Castile-La Mancha. Spain.
EditorialFuneral stele of a freedman whose father had no legal existence. He received the name of his former master (Messulenus) who gave him the freedom. Found in Bonner Street, 130, Cologne (Germany). Roman-Germanic Museum. Cologne. Germany.
EditorialFunerary stele of Sentia Amarantis. The figure of the innkeeper appears filling a jug with wine from a barrel. In the inscription, the husband dedicates the tombstone to the deceased. 2nd-3rd century AD. Marble. National Museum of Roman Art. Merida, pr...
EditorialFragment of a stone stele dedicated by Itur-Ashdum, probably from Sippar, Meopotamia, Iraq. 1760-1750 BCE. The cuneiform inscription states that a high official called Itur Ashdum dedicated a statue to the goddess Ashratum in her temple, on behalf of K...
EditorialA butcher shop, from a Roman funeral stele. The client (left) carries shopping-bag. Butcher's block in background, pieces of meat hanging on hooks.
EditorialCeltiberian funerary stele of Clunia with inscription in Western Celtiberian writing depicting a rider. 1st century BC. Limestone. Clunia, Corun_a del Conde (province of Burgos, Castile and Leon), Spain.National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialRoman stele of the cavalryman Lucius Romanus, of the Illyrian Dardani tribe, died aged 30, while serving with the Ala Afrorum. Dated in 80-90 AD. Found in Gedeon Street, Cologne, Germany. Detail of the bottom. Roman-Germanic Museum. Cologne. Germany.
EditorialFunerary stele with relief depicting a chariot scene. The standing charioteer pulls at the reins, while a second figure holding a weapon, possibly a sword, is depicted in front of the chariot. The spirals represent waves, indicating the coastal locatio...
EditorialViking stele showing Odin's horse Sleipnir. Pagan. From Tjangvide, Alskog, Gotland, Sweden. 9th century. Swedish History Museum. Stockholm, Sweden.
EditorialLower register of a stele: A funeral carriage with two horses and a columnar sarcophagus, followed by two mourners. From Daskylaion (Ergili, Turkey) Marble, total H of the stele: 293 cm Inv. 5761 T.
EditorialGrave Stele of Dexileos, 394-393 BC. Athenian cavalryman Dexileos fighting a naked Peloponnesian hoplite in the Corinthian War. Kerameikos, Athens. Greece. Copy of the original located at the Kerameikos archaeological museum in Athens.
EditorialEgypt. Stele of the scribe Iry. New Kingdom. 18th Dynasty, ca. 1300 BC. Detail of the lower part depicting the scribe Iry, kneeling and saying a prayer inscribed in hieroglyphs in front of him. Polychrome limestone. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Lisbon, ...