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stele

[stee-lee, steel, steel, stee-lee] / ˈsti li, stil, stil, ˈsti li /




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A stele monument was erected in 2024 to commemorate the victims of the Hirtenberg camp.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 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 handed over to the Turkish ambassador to Italy for return to Turkey.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

The repatriation marked the first time the United States had returned cultural property to Yemen since 2004, when one funerary stele was transferred to the Yemeni Embassy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023

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 Oscar Wilde

The finest specimens, from the purely artistic point of view, are undoubtedly the two stelai found at Athens. 

From Miscellanies by Robert Ross

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 stately mixed-media steles — most over six feet tall, like Malcolm X himself — were also informed by Chase-Riboud’s study of ancient Egyptian funerary practices.

From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022

Throughout the 14-year process, he meticulously copied inscriptions from steles, statues and papyrus.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 1, 2022

"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

In front of them was a public square, deserted, and surrounded with steles and votive statues, and having at each end a semicircular marble seat, supported by figures of monsters.

From Thais by Robert B. (Robert Bruce) Douglas




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