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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

This stone fragment from the Tel Dan stele dates from the ninth century BCE and was discovered in the 1990s.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 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

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

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

From Miscellanies by Robert Ross

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

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

Ms. Vitale’s repurposed rails feel in this context like grave steles or memorials.

From New York Times ● Aug. 7, 2014

In front of them was a public square, deserted, and surrounded with steles and votive statues, and having at each end a semicircular marble seat, supported by figures of monsters.

From Thais by Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas


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