- a variation of stele.
stela
Americannoun
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stelae
plural
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Aztec, Maya, and Inca Empires - Introductory
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Not only have times significantly changed but, in the great Ford outdoors, a stela from a Theosophical Society pilgrimage played a century ago could easily be imagined buried on the hillside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
Christa Schieber de Lavarreda, the site’s archaeological director, points to a flat stone, considered an altar, found face-up just a few feet away, which archaeologists think was installed at the same time as the stela.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022
There, a battered stone stela excavated in 1989 bears a Long Count date fragment that may refer to an unknown event around 300 B.C.E.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2022
The nearly one-ton stela, experts determined, had come from a temple dedicated to the Greek-Egyptian King Ptolemy V in 196 B.C.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
Disappointed, Stirling took the crew to yet a third fallen stela.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Though concentrated, it’s situated among newly refreshed spaces containing lavishly ornamented mummy coffins, carved grave stelae, canopic jars, tomb wall reliefs and the preserved body of a woman named Gautseshenu.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026
Sixty-five of the artifacts are funerary stelae — stone slabs featuring carved heads — traced to the second half of the first millennium B.C. in northwest Yemen.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 21, 2023
In an emailed statement the spokesperson noted that 28 stelae engraved with the same decree written by Egyptian priests had been discovered, starting with the Rosetta Stone in 1799, and that 21 remain in Egypt.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2022
So far, they have recorded more than 19,000 Maya artifacts, including stelae, monuments, and house foundations, and more than 160 burials.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 18, 2022
Most of the stelae at Kaan were made from soft stone that has eroded too much to be readable.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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