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stele

[stee-lee, steel, steel, stee-lee] / ˈsti li, stil, stil, ˈsti li /




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A stele monument was erected in 2024 to commemorate the victims of the Hirtenberg camp.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

The room’s most impressive object is a 5th century BC carved marble stele, 8 feet tall.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 11, 2025

The stele was handed over to the Turkish ambassador to Italy for return to Turkey.

From Seattle Times Apr. 28, 2023

The repatriation marked the first time the United States had returned cultural property to Yemen since 2004, when one funerary stele was transferred to the Yemeni Embassy.

From Washington Post Feb. 21, 2023

He gathered us around a thirteen-foot-tall stone column with a big sphinx on the top, and started telling us how it was a grave marker, a stele, for a girl about our age.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

Dr. Strzygowski gives similarly shaped stelai from Alexandria and Cairo, with incised awkward scrolls, and some of Arab date.

From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson

The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens. 

From Miscellanies by Robert Ross

The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens.

From Shorter Prose Pieces by Oscar Wilde

But the Malcolm steles are also poetic memorials — among the many that Chase-Riboud would make to misunderstood or little-known figures from history.

From New York Times Oct. 4, 2022

Throughout the 14-year process, he meticulously copied inscriptions from steles, statues and papyrus.

From Washington Post Jul. 1, 2022

"Usually we have 52 steles here, and we've found 500 pieces," Pedro says.

From BBC May 10, 2019

It consists of a field of massive gray steles designed to communicate sorrow, accompanied by an underground information center.

From Time Sep. 19, 2014

On two steles which I have noticed there, three urns are represented side by side.

From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various




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