stele
IPA: stˈɛɫ
noun
- (archaeology) An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela.
- (archaeology, uncommon) Any carved or engraved surface.
- (architecture, archaeology, obsolete) An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple.
- (botany) The central core of a plant's root and stem system, especially including the vascular tissue and developed from the plerome.
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Examples of "stele" in Sentences
- The basalt stele is tall and wide.
- An obelisk is a specialized kind of stele.
- The Stone is a fragment of a larger stele.
- It was recorded on a stele found in Coptos.
- The stele is all that remains of the temple.
- A modern stele was then erected on this site.
- It is the largest engraved stele in the world.
- There is a stele recording the building of the gates.
- The stele symbolizes the national rebirth of Armenians.
- The stele is a fragment without epigraph and it is decorated on all four sides.
- The gravestone, called a stele, is in nearly pristine condition and archaeologists were able to translate all the writing on it.
- This remarkable inscription is found on a stele which is preserved in the British Museum (No. 1027), and which was made in the ninth year of
- The Marks were cut into their skin with a styluslike tool called a stele—the odd penlike object she’d seen Will use to draw on the door at the Dark House.
- The stele is the first of its kind to be found intact in its original location, enabling scholars to learn about funerary customs and life in the eighth century B.C.
- The monument's imposing shape echoes the sculpted stone slabs, known as stele, that the ancient Mayans used to commemorate battles and funerals or to delineate territory.
- East was the upright "stele" (Gk. stele, a block or slab of stone), frequently ornamented with a fillet or a projecting curved moulding; in the West a slab for the closing of the grave was often used.
- Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute, said the stele was a “rare and most informative discovery in having written evidence together with artistic and archaeological evidence from the Iron Age.”
- Gil Stein, director of the Oriental Institute, said the stele was a "rare and most informative discovery in having written evidence together with artistic and archaeological evidence from the Iron Age."
- Saite Tafnakhti, returning from an expedition against the Arabs, during which he had been obliged to renounce the pomp and luxuries of life, had solemnly cursed him, and had caused his imprecations to be inscribed upon a "stele" [21] set up in the temple of Amon at Thebes.
- On the upper part of the stele, which is now one of the treasures of the Louvre, Paris, King Hammurabi salutes, with his right hand reverently upraised, the sun god Shamash, seated on his throne, at the summit of E-sagila, by whom he is being presented with the stylus with which to inscribe the legal code.