STELE

Stele

A stele or stela is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, very often for funerery or commemorative purposes. Stelae may be used for governmentr notices or as territorial markers to mark borders or delineate land ownership. They very often have texts and may have decoration, which may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted onto the slab. Traditional Western gravestones are technically stelae, but are very rarely described by the term.

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stele

Noun

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. An upright (or formerly upright) slab containing engraved or painted decorations or inscriptions; a stela
  2. Any carved or engraved surface
  3. An acroterion, the decoration on the ridge of an ancient Greek building such as a temple

Noun (etymology 3)

  1. 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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