stele
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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
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
Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele.
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 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
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
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
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
On two steles which I have noticed there, three urns are represented side by side.
From The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 by Various
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