#stele

[egypt-museum]

Stele dedicated by two women to the snake goddess Renenutet

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1292-1290 BC.

From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin. Suppl. 6138

[muzantropic]

Inta, Komi Republic, Russia

[writing-system]

Inscription in Phoenician abjad. Basalt stele of King Kilamuwa of Sam’al, c. 825 BC.

Source

[romegreeceart]

Egyptian votive steles

* Stele dedicated to the goddess Meretseger by the draftman Nebra

* Stele dedicated to the "swallow" and "the cat" by the draftsman Nebra

* New Kingdom, 1292-1190 BCE

* Deir el-Medina

* limestone

* Egyptian Museum, Turin

Turin, June 2023

[shadowworldjournal]

One of the most nonsensical choices this show made (among the many) was the way they handled the runes. I’ll never understand why they decided to completely change such a fundamental part of the lore.

In the series, runes are applied only once and stay on the body for life. There are no temporary runes like in the books. Once all of them have been applied, the stele basically loses its original purpose instead of drawing new runes, it’s used like a scanner to “activate” the existing ones, as if you were scanning groceries at the supermarket. Seriously, it looks like a barcode reader at checkout!! A choice that’s both visually ridiculous and conceptually wrong.

Now, I’m not stupid I get why they wanted to simplify things. In the books, runes can be permanent or temporary, and the temporary ones fade away, leaving scars. On a TV show, that would’ve been a nightmare to reproduce every time a character prepared for battle, they’d have to draw new runes, and once they vanished, the makeup team would have to recreate all those scars. With the amount of fights in the series, it would’ve been an impossible workload for the makeup department.

So, I completely understand the desire to simplify the process. But honestly, it would’ve been enough to say that temporary runes disappear without leaving scars. There was no need to come up with that ridiculous “scanner stele” thing not only does it look silly, but it also strips away all the mystical and ritualistic charm of the runes.

[gemsofgreece]

The funerary stele of a young woman called Philonóe. A baby yearns to be held by its mother, yet she only stares pensively. It is believed the woman might have died in childbirth and never had the chance to hold her baby. The exhibit can be seen in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece.

[johbeil]

Deeply symbolic, no doubt

Some underground Picasso must have been a work here. Car dungeon in Rome. Several "steles" in the foreground add an artistic touch to this otherwise rather dismal arrangement.

[alexxx-malev]

Russia. Moscow Canal Канал имени Москвы