stele
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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
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 Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens.
From Shorter Prose Pieces by Wilde, Oscar
The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens.
From Miscellanies by Ross, Robert
From a distance, they resemble the marble steles that ancient societies once used to record battles or royal lineages for posterity.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2022
Throughout the 14-year process, he meticulously copied inscriptions from steles, statues and papyrus.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022
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 Armstrong, Walter, Sir
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