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WikiProject Ancient Egypt to-do list:

Needed articles.

We should have an article on every pyramid and every nome in Ancient Egypt. I'm sure the rest of us can think of other articles we should have.

Cleanup.

To start with, most of the general history articles badly need attention. And I'm told that at least some of the dynasty articles need work. Any other candidates?

Standardize the Chronology.

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Stub sorting

Anyone? I consider this probably the most unimportant of tasks on Wikipedia, but if you believe it needs to be done . . .

Data sorting.

This is a project I'd like to take on some day, & could be applied to more of Wikipedia than just Ancient Egypt. Take one of the standard authorities of history or culture -- Herotodus, the Elder Pliny, the writings of Breasted or Kenneth Kitchen, & see if you can't smoothly merge quotations or information into relevant articles. Probably a good exercise for someone who owns one of those impressive texts, yet can't get access to a research library.

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Stele[edit]

I have changed the pages Stela and Stele and the relevant pages linking them so that stele now refers to the biological concept, and stela to the archaeological concept. Both pages also link to each other with explanations to avoid any confusion. --Chino 06:27, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well, it was a good idea. Sorry it didn't last. —

Llywelyn II

19:58, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Major Egyptian Stelae[edit]

There are certainly some major Stela that could have Wiki pages. I worked on Egyp. Hieroplyphs for 2 years, by way of the Rosetta Stone, (and Ptolemy III's Decree of Canopus (the grandfather of Ptol. V.

I need to know who would write about a Mayan Stelle

Some stela to consider:

The " Metternich Stela ", at the Family in Germany(Duke Metternich), I think. It is in a Great category of Stelae: called: " Cippus of Horus ", for spells, i.e., Medicine.

A, different, "Cippus of Hurus" stela.

The 1906 Famous [ Breasted ] work. (I just looked. I am not sure if he is in the Wiki Encycl. ) The 5-Volume work The History of Egypt.( He redid all the Hieroglyphs of EVEryone up to that time.) The work is the Autobriography on a Stela. I don't know the exact dimensions of it, but the autobiography takes up about 40 pages of translation. It is obviously a Famous Stela. He(Kush Pharaoh Piankhi) was a Kushite Pharaoh and went North to the Delta, and returned, then writing his autobiography. The stela is the Piankhi Stela.....( Piankh, 1074- 1070 BC, List of Pharaohs ). ( Piankhi's name in Wikipedia is Piye....Michael McA.... )Mmcannis 16:55, 23 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

There is the Famous inscription of Thothmosis III between the legs of the Great Sphinx of Giza, ( Sphinx ), I think it may qualify as a "Stela", and I forget exactly the Import of the Statement, but I believe it is long, and halfway comprehensive. Something about the History of Eqypt, and its Future. I forget. ...M. McAnnis,YumaAZ

I'd like to make a suggestion also (although 8 years have passed since the previous comments). Would the three-script, bilingual 7-foot tall Tanis stone (more commonly known as the Decree of Canopus, in Hieroglyphics & Greek), be considered a Stele and worth listing here? Bob Enyart, Denver radio host at KGOV (talk) 01:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 2005[edit]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section.

I have requested at WP:RM that Stele be moved to Stele (biology) and Stela to Stele, with Stela kept as a redirect. For rationale and discussion, see Talk:Stele (biology) and Wikipedia:Requested moves#7 November 2005. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:11, 7 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Move completed. —Cleared as filed. 17:52, 20 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

As a botanist familiar with both definitions, I think this is a good choice. The biological definition is far less commmon than the archeological one. Though, personally, I would have preferred to see the plant morphology article appear as Stele (botany) instead of Stele (biology). -- EncycloPetey 14:36, 22 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Requested sources[edit]

How shall we provide sources for this very general article, to comply with the request? A footnote to the main texts reporting on each civilisation? --Wetman 22:12, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Runestones[edit]

Are runestones a kind of stele, or are they something different? NominalActor (talk) 18:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Steles[edit]

Steles should redirect here. 64.229.100.61 (talk) 04:43, 17 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Pronunciations[edit]

Should be left to Wiktionary unless they're incredibly non-obvious. I don't think this qualifies. Stele and stela sound exactly as you'd expect them to and the IPA is cluttering up the header and confusing people about the plurals. (See below.) — $Llywelyn II$ 10:11, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ootside the specialised archaeology and ancient history fields the word is most often encountered in TV programmes, where it is frequently mis-pronounced as 'stella', so providing the correct pronunciation - 'stee-lee' - is both informative and helpful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.150.10.137 (talk) 08:22, 2 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Plurals[edit]

You guys nailed it in the first sentence and ignored your own advice for the rest of the page. If you're using stela, the plural can be stelae; if you're using Greek stele, it (properly) can't. I know many archaeologists can't keep that straight (or mess it up on purpose to annoy the classicists), but let's try to keep a higher standard on the thing's own page. :) — $Llywelyn II$ 10:11, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Images[edit]

Went through and put in some better/more important images. Some others people might want to fit in or

1000 Buddha Stele (千佛石碑, 557-581) at the Shanghai Museum [lovely, better and earlier than what we have now, but would need to be uploaded]
Stele of Bongseon Honggyeongsa (not as good but maybe people want to see more Korea)
lovely but maybe not big enough to be a stele & we have enough similar items
not as lovely but better backstory, still have enough, though
Not much to them, but the old Tanit markers from Carthage can be haunting
this
Imperial calligraphy representing the Lantingji Xu
3 Kingdoms era Chinese stele but can't tell why this is famed in Japan
cute item from the stele forest
Lovely old Mason-Dixon marker, displaying the coat of arms of Lord Baltimore
NY-Mass-Conn tripoint marker
US Historical Sign marking the location of a former sign, if you wanted to explain where stele went — $Llywelyn II$ 20:15, 22 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, but I think Xtian standing crosses & herms are better in see also, as they would not normally be called stelae. Johnbod (talk) 14:29, 26 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I included a picture of a Western cemetery, even though it's rare to refer to contemporary gravestones as stelae. I did so as a reminder that those stones are common in contemporary Anglophone culture, too. 68.37.254.48 (talk) 17:13, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]