Description
Immediately in front of Troy’s South Tower stood several stone stelai. Unfortunately, only their stone-block footings remain. There were at least four of these free-standing upright slabs but there were possibly six originally.
The additional two stelai have been designed to stand as a pair within the South Tower as there is some evidence of cult activity in the ground-floor of the tower. Michael Wood in his book In Search of the Trojan War goes so far as to say that one of the principal altars of the city was in the tower. We should remember that the Bronze Age people of the Aegean did not have temples.
More on Troy’s Cult Stelai on Michael’s blog here.
The designs are based primarily on the fragments of stelai found in the shaft graves at Mycenae, especially their spiral designs, but are also influenced by the styles of later Greek stelai.
The kit is made from medium density fibreboard (MDF).
Any miniatures shown with SLD models are for scale purposes only and are not included with the kits.
