Stela Definition

Stela Sentence Examples

• The bowl is inscribed round the outside, the stela on the back.

• Here the god Osiris is on the left with the stela owner, the dead person shown on the right worshipping him.

• About 1330 B.C. Khurba-tila was captured by Kuri-galzu III., the Kassite king of Babylonia, but a later prince Kidin-Khutrutas avenged his defeat, and Sutruk-Nakhkhunte (1220 B.C.) carried fire and sword through Babylonia, slew its king Zamama-sum-iddin and carried away a stela of Naram-Sin and the famous code of laws of Khammurabi from Sippara, as well as a stela of Manistusu from Akkuttum or Akkad.

• He also conquered the land of Asnunnak and carried off from Padan a stela belonging to a refugee from Malatia.

• Samsat (Samosata); sculptured stela with incised inscription much defaced.