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
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
