Slab stela
The slab stela was an original form of the
3rd millennium BC
were painted Slab Steles. A small list of Ancient Egyptian dignitaries or their wives had a slab stela.
Some
funerary stelas
were in the form of slab steles, as opposed to being of the more common vertical type.
Lintel
At the same time period of the middle 3rd millennium BC and later, some famous horizontal
Pelizaeus Museum of Germany. The horizontal lintel was used in other cultures in ancient times, for example in the Mesopotamian
cultures.
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Iunu's slab stela -
Rahotep's slab stela
See also
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