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 illegally excavated near the ancient city of Zeugma, in what is near Gaziantep, in present-day southeastern Turkey, the police said.

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

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

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