- An
orthostat is a
large stone with a more or less slab-like
shape that has been
artificially set
upright (so a cube-shaped
block is not an
orthostat)....
- 5,000 year-old
triskelion on an
orthostat at Newgrange...
- An
orthostat depicting people playing knucklebones from
Carchemish (c. 8th
century BCE)...
- unclear. The
walls of this p****age are made up of
large stone slabs called orthostats, twenty-two of
which are on the
western side and twenty-one on the eastern...
- languages: maen or men, "stone" and hir or hîr, "long"),
standing stone,
orthostat, or lith is a
large upright stone,
emplaced in the
ground by humans, typically...
- Press. ISBN 9781628370843.
Orthostat relief:
archer Orthostat relief:
hunting scene Orthostat relief: lion hunt
Orthostat relief:
Relief with Two Heroes...
-
flagstones placed around the
orthostat. But $600,000 was
still needed in May 1975 to
complete the memorial. The
orthostat was
delivered to the site in...
- to lie on
their sides. In
other contexts the
English term is
usually orthostat. It is
typical in Gr****
architecture for
pairs of
orthostates to form...
- earliest-discovered
possible depictions of the Moon is a 3,000 BCE rock
carving Orthostat 47 at Knowth, Ireland. The
crescent depicting the Moon as with the lunar...
-
World Heritage website.
Retrieved 1 June 2011. Moriarty, Sean Keir. "
Orthostat: The
Mound of the Hostages": p. 34 Brennan, Martin. The
Stones of Time:...
