stela
Americannoun
plural
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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
Another stela crashed to the floor and shattered.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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