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Uaxaclajuun Ubʼaah Kʼawiil (also known as "Eighteen Rabbit" or "Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil" [2]), was the 13th ajaw or ruler of the powerful Maya polity associated with the site of Copán in modern Honduras (its Classic Maya name was probably Oxwitik [3]). He ruled from January 2, 695, to May 3, 738.
In the Pasión River region of Petén, rulers began to be portrayed as ballplayers on stelae. Seibal was the first site in the region to depict its rulers thus. [ 115 ] Seventeen stelae were erected at Seibal between 849 and 889, and show a mix of Maya and foreign styles, including a lord wearing the beaked mask of Ehecatl , the central Mexican ...
The last stele erected in Axum was probably the so-called King Ezana's Stele, in the 4th century CE. King Ezana (c. 321 – c. 360), influenced by his childhood tutor Frumentius , introduced Christianity to Axum, precluding the pagan practice of erecting burial stelae (it seems that at the feet of each obelisk, together with the grave, there ...
Stele of Ur-Nammu, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology A portion of the stela fragments were found during excavations at Ur in the 1920s, primarily in 1925, by Leonard Woolley under the auspices of the Joint Expedition of The University Museum and The British Museum in the temple precinct of Nanna.
For example, on Stela 24, she is described as ub'aah (short for ub'aahila'n) ti yax k'uh, "she is portrayed as the first god," meaning she was seen as literally serving as a vessel for this god. [11] On the side of Stela 24, this ritual is described in more detail; here the god is referred to as the moon goddess despite the net skirt which was ...
The Year 400 Stela, or Stela of Year 400, is an ancient Egyptian stela issued in the 13th century BCE. The meaning of this stela could be clearer, but it is generally assumed that it celebrates the 400th anniversary of some event related to the deity Seth.
The Egyptian kings needed to appear as both a ruler and a god and were charged with maintaining stability within the kingdom. Thus Egyptian kings were almost always portrayed as cool and calm, like the Nile, and so Mentuemhet adopted such a motif into his own portraiture. All of Mentuemhet's statues were done in the style of the Old Kingdom of ...
Gudea (Sumerian: 𒅗𒌤𒀀, Gu 3-de 2-a) was a Sumerian ruler of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia, who ruled c. 2080 –2060 BC (short chronology) or 2144–2124 BC (middle chronology).