altar-stone

The altar-stone, once thought to be porphyry, is more likely to be a variety of Purbeck marble.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Quick soft hands lifted her and laid her on the altar-stone amidst a bed of flowers.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Beside the altar-stone lay no fresh - slain corpse, but a shriveled mummy, a brown, dry, unrecognizable carcass sprawling among moldering swathings.

The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

Beside the altar-stone lay no fresh - slain corpse, but a shriveled mummy, a brown, dry, unrecognizable carcass sprawling among moldering swathings.

The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

Xaltotun stood beside the dark altar-stone and stared across the valley, at the dead and wounded men on the terraces, at the grim, blood-stained band at the head of the slopes, at the dusty, steel-clad ranks reforming in the vale below.

The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

Xaltotun stood beside the dark altar-stone and stared across the valley, at the dead and wounded men on the terraces, at the grim, blood-stained band at the head of the slopes, at the dusty, steel-clad ranks reforming in the vale below.

The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

Quick soft hands lifted her and laid her on the altar-stone amidst a bed of flowers.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Beside the altar-stone lay no fresh-slain corpse, but a shriveled mummy, a brown, dry, unrecognizable carcass sprawling among moldering swathings.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

Quick soft hands lifted her and laid her on the altar-stone amidst a bed of flowers.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

Beside the altar-stone lay no fresh-slain corpse, but a shriveled mummy, a brown, dry, unrecognizable carcass sprawling among moldering swathings.

The Hour of the Dragon Howard, Robert E. 1977