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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 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

A layer of cells known as the endodermis separates the stele from the ground tissue in the outer portion of the root.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele.

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

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

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

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

For the next 50 years, the rubber tappers working in the forest chipped the narrative glyphs from the city’s monolithic steles, selling the city’s recorded history one piece at a time.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2018

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

From Time ● Sep. 19, 2014

He also goes around to famous mountains, where they erect steles, stone monuments, which say that the Emperor's realm is now totally unified.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2012

We here find an instance of one of these arched steles erected before a fortress.

From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong




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