Exempel på stelae

• As public monuments, the stelae follow the conventions of an artistic language that was invented in order to make public declarations.

• He believed that the glyphs, ornaments, idols, stelae, and altars were built up of numerical symbols and dedicated to number worship.

• On stelae, the ruler was shown holding military or ritual objects.

• It is difficult in those cases to claim that the absence of stelae during a particular period is indicative of anything meaningful.

• One is oral tradition, the other is his stelae.

• His description suggests the stelae were lying on their sides in the sixteenth century.

• They are tall, free-standing, pillar-like stelae with tapering form, usually with a rectangular cross-section and pictorial narrative scenes carved on all four sides in registers.

• If individual soldiers or battalions are mentioned, they are in smaller script, or they are on stelae that do not mention a commanding superior.

• Second, all of the stelae in the group have texts or iconographic content.

• The reference would be to white stuccoed non-effigy censers used to burn incense near stelae and then left at their place of use.

• Yaxchilan stelae often included ancestor cartouches above the ruler.

• Monuments include structures and large sculpture such as stelae that were carved with information about cosmologies and hierarchies of power.

• It seems likely that these features resulted from human modification, specifically as a byproduct of ceremonies centered on stelae endowed with sacredness.

• This liveliness, however, is tempered in both stelae.

• The stelae symbolize the connection of the world of the living and the underworld.