| It represents St. Simeon the stylite atop his pillar with details of his bare ribs and naked body showing. |
| Daniel, the famous stylite of the city, actually descended from his pillar for the first time in fifteen years, terrifying Basiliscus into the withdrawal of his edict. |
| Simeon the stylite comes down from his pillar-top, and chaffers in the market-place with common folks. |
| Joshua the Stylite, Philagathos' De siccitate, and Synesius of Cyrene's Catastasis. |
| But within ten months he was permitted to set out for the Holy Land, with the blessing of a nearby stylite. |
| He was called Simeon the Elder to distinguish him from a 6th-century stylite also named Simeon. |
