![]() The second unique aspect of the piece is that Naram-Sin is shown wearing a bull-horned helmet or shown as the face of lion. This stele depicts the victory in a diagonal fashion with the king still being at the top-center but where everyone else can look up to him. Most conquest depictions are shown horizontally, with the king being at the top-center. Though currently about two meters in height estimates of its original height range up to three meters. ![]() This is supposed to convey their uncivilized and barbaric nature making the conquest justified. The weak and chaotic opposing forces are shown being thrown from atop the mountainside, impaled by spears, fleeing and begging Naram-Sin for mercy as well as being trampled underfoot by Naram-Sin himself. Naram-Sin is shown as by far the most important figure, towering over his enemy and troops and all eyes gaze up toward him. The stele shows a narrative scene of the king crossing the steep slopes into enemy territory on the left are the ordered imperial forces keeping in rank while marching over the disordered defenders that lie broken and defeated. It depicts the King Naram-Sin of Akkad leading the Akkadian army to victory over the Lullubi, a mountain people from the Zagros Mountains. The relief measures 200cm in height (6' 7") and was carved in pinkish sandstone, with cuneiform writings in Akkadian and Elamite. ![]() The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin is a stele that dates to approximately 2254–2218 BC, in the time of the Akkadian Empire, and is now at the Louvre in Paris. Send us feedback about these examples.Class=notpageimage| Original location of the stele, in Sippar, Mesopotamia, modern Iraq, before being moved to Susa, Iran, by Shutruk-Nakhunte in the 12th century BC. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'stela.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2021 Among the crosses were a dozen stone slabs, resembling stela. 2022 The standing stone-also known as a stele, or stela-measures 91 inches long and 41 inches wide. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2022 An Egyptian stela dating from more than four and a half thousand years ago, now in the collection of the Louvre, depicts the Princess Nefertiabet dressed in what looks like elegant contemporary evening wear. 2022 Not only have times significantly changed but, in the great Ford outdoors, a stela from a Theosophical Society pilgrimage placed a century ago could easily be imagined buried on the hillside. 2020 So naturally a petition has started to return the stela to Egypt, where it was discovered by the French during Napoleon’s invasion in 1799 before being traded to the British and shipped to England. Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022 The coronations of new kings, as well as the end of k’atuns and other auspicious dates, were also recorded on stela. Franz Lidz Meghan Dhaliwal, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2020 Scholars began searching for physical evidence of the realm only in 1994, when epigraphers reading a stela - found a century earlier at a dig in Guatemala - realized that a glyph described the capture of a Sak Tz’i’ king in 628 A.D. Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. Recent Examples on the Web The stela’s goal was multifold: To lay out the laws of the land clearly for citizens, but also to establish Hammurabi as law-giver and judge even after his death.
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