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Stela of Ikhernofret

The Stela of Ikhernofret, also known as the Ikhernofret Stela, is a Middle Kingdom limestone stela recording treasurer Ikhernofret's part in the Osiris mysteries at Abydos under Senusret III.

Stela of Irtisen

The Stela of Irtisen is a limestone funerary stela of the sculptor Irtysen, made at Abydos around 2000 BC and held in the Louvre since 1838.

Stela of Neskhons

The Stela of Neskhons is a painted wooden funerary stela, made around 965 BC for Neskhons, a principal wife of the High Priest of Amun Pinedjem II at Thebes.

Stela of Pasenhor

The Stela of Pasenhor is a limestone Apis-bull stela from the Serapeum at Saqqara, dedicated by the Memphite priest Pasenhor in year 37 of Shoshenq V.

Stela of Piye

The Stela of Piye, or Victory Stela of Piye, is a granite stela from Gebel Barkal recording the Kushite king Piye's Egyptian campaign, c. 725 BC.

Stela of Queen Tetisheri

The Stela of Queen Tetisheri is an 18th Dynasty limestone stela found at Abydos, on which Ahmose I records a pyramid, temple, and cenotaph endowed for his grandmother.

Stela of Sebek-khu

The Stela of Sebek-khu, or Sobek-khu Stele, is a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian limestone stela found at Abydos in 1901 and held in the Manchester Museum.

Stela of Sehetepibre

The Stela of Sehetepibre is an Egyptian stela from Abydos, dated to the reign of Amenemhat III around 1825 BC and now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Stela of Shamshi-Adad V

The Stela of Shamshi-Adad V is a limestone Neo-Assyrian royal stela of king Shamshi-Adad V, found at Nimrud, Iraq, and kept in the British Museum.

Stela of Somtutefnakht

The Stela of Somtutefnakht (Sematawytefnakht) is a hieroglyphic inscription of a Herakleopolitan priest, preserved in Naples, whose career spanned Egyptian kings, Persian rule after 343 BC, and Alexander's conquest.

Stela of Taneyidamani

The Stela of Taneyidamani is a granite-gneiss victory stela of the Kushite king Taneyidamani, found at Jebel Barkal, Sudan, and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Stelae of Darius I at the Suez canal

The Stelae of Darius I at the Suez canal are at least four granite stelae erected along the Nile–Red Sea canal under Darius I around 515–495 BC.

Stelato (享界)

Stelato, also known as Xiangjie (享界), is a Chinese premium new energy vehicle brand developed by BAIC Group and Huawei under the HIMA alliance, first offering the S9 executive sedan.

Stelato S9

The Stelato S9 (享界S9) is a large executive electric sedan developed by Huawei and BAIC, launched in China on August 6, 2024 as a rival to the Mercedes-Benz EQS at about half its price.

Stelco

Stelco, founded in 1910 as The Steel Company of Canada, is a Canadian steelmaker headquartered in Hamilton, Ontario, operating the Nanticoke Lake Erie Works and owned by Cleveland-Cliffs since 2024.

Stele

Stele (plural stelae), from Greek stēlē: an upright inscribed or relief-carved slab used as a funerary, votive, boundary, or decree monument in Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, and China.

Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu

The Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu, also known as the Stele of Ankh-af-na-Khonsu, is a painted wooden offering stele of a Theban priest of Montu, dated to circa 680/70 BCE.

Stele of Meli-Šipak

The Stele of Meli-Šipak is a fragmentary stone kudurru of the Kassite king Meli-Šipak (1186–1172 BC), carried to Susa and re-inscribed by Šutruk-Naḫḫunte I; it is held in the Louvre.

Stele of Nastasen

The Stele of Nastasen is a granite triumphal inscription of King Nastasen of Kush, carved in Egyptian hieroglyphs in the late 4th century BC and now kept in Berlin.

Stele of Ördek-Burnu

The Stele of Ördek-Burnu is a basalt mortuary stele of the Iron Age kingdom of Sam'al, found in 1888 near Zincirli in southern Turkey and now held in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums.

Stele of the Ritual Vessels

The Stele of the Ritual Vessels (Liqi bei, 礼器碑) is an Eastern Han stele erected in 156 CE at the Confucius temple in Qufu, a celebrated model of clerical script.

Stele of the Vultures

The Stele of the Vultures, also Vulture Stele, is a Sumerian limestone victory monument of King Eannatum of Lagash, commemorating his defeat of Umma around 2450 BC.

Stele of Ur-Nammu

The Stele of Ur-Nammu is a fragmentary limestone stela of Ur-Namma, king of Ur, found smashed at Ur in 1925 and reconstructed in the Penn Museum, Philadelphia.

Stele of Ushumgal

The Stele of Ushumgal is a small gypsum alabaster monument from Early Dynastic Sumer, carved on four sides with one of the earliest known Sumerian land records.

Stele of Zhang Menglong

The Stele of Zhang Menglong (张猛龙碑) is a Northern Wei stone stele carved in 522 CE, regarded as the finest example of Wei stele calligraphy.

Stelechocarpus burahol

Stelechocarpus burahol, kepel or burahol, an Annonaceae tree native to Borneo and southern Malesia, grown mainly in central Java for an aromatic fruit once reserved for Javanese royalty as a natural perfume.

Stelida

Stelida (Στελίδα) is a chert hill on northwest Naxos, Greece, a prehistoric quarry and tool workshop used from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic (about 250,000–7000 BC), the earliest site in the central Aegean, with a Minoan-type peak sanctuary (1600–1550 BC).

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Stelios Haji-Ioannou (Στέλιος Χατζηιωάννου) is a Greek-Cypriot entrepreneur, born in Athens in 1967, who founded easyJet in 1995 and licenses the easy brand family through easyGroup.

Stelios Kyriakides

Stelios Kyriakides is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin who established the field of propagating instabilities, including buckle propagation in offshore pipelines.

Stelios Mygiakis

Stelios Mygiakis (Στέλιος Μυγιάκης), born 1952 in Rethymno, Greek Greco-Roman wrestler; won 62 kg gold at Moscow 1980, Greece's first Olympic wrestling gold, and competed at four Olympics.