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  • This lively convocation of gods, goddesses, demigods, kouroi, korai, horses, mythical beasts, and grave stelai is electrifying, all the more so because the ensemble includes such Ancient Art 101 mainstays as the Kritios Kouros and the torso of the Rampin Rider (fitted with a casting of the horseman's head, now in the Louvre).

    Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009

  • The larnakes containing the bones and ashes would have been buried beneath the stelai acording to his interpretation.

    Fallen Heroes: Athens Mourning 2000

  • Clairmont (1981, 1983: pp. 142-143) suggests these are remains of a polyandreion and were for the placement of ten stelai listing casualties.

    Fallen Heroes: Athens Mourning 2000

  • This list, and an accompanying epigram praising the virtue and sacrifice of the fallen, was inscribed on one or more stelai.

    Fallen Heroes: Athens Mourning 2000

  • No Athenian polyandreion has ever been found intact, and our knowledge is based on fragments of stelai, sculptured panels, and architectural blocks from them, along with some evidence from vase painting and ancient authors.

    Fallen Heroes: Athens Mourning 2000

  • The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens.

    Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

  • It is true indeed that there were sometimes inscriptions on pillars, -- which yet would be stelai rather than stuloi, -- but the image of the pillar is now dismissed, and only the conqueror remains.

    Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

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