stele

Example Sentences

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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 hieroglyphics in this Egyptian stele from circa 1944 BCE are far more stylized than the Egyptian writing produced a thousand years earlier.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

In 1891 a French archaeological team uncovered a stone stele near the village of Sambor on the banks of the Mekong River, in what was then French Indochina, later to become Cambodia/Kampuchea.

From Scientific American • Jul. 28, 2022

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