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 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
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
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
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
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
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 Miscellanies by Ross, Robert
With Ukrainian investigators still cataloging the losses of missing oil paintings, ancient steles, bronze pots, coins, necklaces and busts, the number of reported stolen items is likely to grow.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2023
Most impressive, the refurbished mosaics and a wall of 760 fragments of funerary steles.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
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
Sculptured steles and others merely painted exist side by side.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
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