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
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
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
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
Most impressive, the refurbished mosaics and a wall of 760 fragments of funerary steles.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
"Usually we have 52 steles here, and we've found 500 pieces," Pedro says.
From BBC ● May 10, 2019
It consists of a field of massive gray steles designed to communicate sorrow, accompanied by an underground information center.
From Time ● Sep. 19, 2014
Of those steles left standing, one is 60 feet tall and is among the largest structures in the ancient world.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012
One of his steles, which is now in the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople, depicts him as a fully bearded man with Semitic characteristics.
From Myths of Babylonia and Assyria by Donald Alexander Mackenzie
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