An ancient upright stone slab bearing markings.
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Examples for "stela "
1 The soldier kept his place before the stela and contemplated the distance.
2 They were eyeing some sort of much weathered stone marker, or stela .
3 They said nothing, looking a little awed at the soldier and puzzled at the stela .
4 The soldier looked and the shock of recognition drew him a pace away from the stela .
5 The Nile is narrower there than above, and large stela , were erected there by Rameses II.
1 Here there was formerly an altar; and a stele of Thûtmosis IV.
2 The stele is always in the form of a door with pyloni-form cornice.
3 The stele constitutes the essential part of the chapel and tomb.
4 The stele was an imperial boundary-stone marking the frontier of the Egyptian empire.
5 Imonus, high priest of Afra, had brought Ghërilain's lost gold stele as proof.
6 The Aristion stele may be taken as an example of the second order.
7 And the unfinished stele had space set aside for three cartouches.
8 Mr. Brunner pointed to one of the pictures on the stele .
9 It's a pose found in an unfinished stone stele honouring two unidentified royals.
10 There is a representation of Marduk here on this stele - the Code of Hammurabi.
11 She also stopped at the stele and burned incense and owl feathers there.
12 The old woman pressed her hand to the stele , then to her heart.
13 They were within sight of the stele when she fainted.
14 The golden stele caught the morning light like a mirror.
15 On a stele in the centre stood a little ivory Eros of wonderful antique workmanship.
16 The slabs had been displaced now, disclosing the small door, with its fine wrought stele .
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