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stele

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




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Kusman was hired as a labourer on the Cavustepe excavations after his military service in the 1960s and there encountered his first stele.

From Barron's Aug. 10, 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

I mumbled something about trying harder, while Mr. Brunner took one long sad look at the stele, like hed been at this girl’s funeral.

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 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

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

Of those steles left standing, one is 60 feet tall and is among the largest structures in the ancient world.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2012

Arab archæology is represented by memoirs of M. Casonova on an Arab globe, on sixteen Arab steles, and especially by M. Burgoin's great work on Arab art in Egypt.

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




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