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Definition of Steles
1. stele [n] - See also: stele
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steles
Literary usage of Steles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Researches in Sinai by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, C. T. Currelly (1906)
"There was evidently an aversion to meddling with the old steles, and this one
was not even shifted so as to be square with the building, but the wall was ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"In some stems, especially among the pteridophytes, there are several independent
steles, but more often this appearance is produced by the branching of the ..."
3. History of Art in Phœnicia and Its Dependencies by Georges Perrot, Charles Chipiez (1885)
"Votive steles from Carthage. French National Library. perhaps the hippopotamus,
with a rider on his back (Fig. 55) ;s the bull, often in well-conceived ..."
4. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1897)
"That the steles are not grave-steles in the proper sense is suggested in the
first place by the very marked resemblance in character that they bear to ..."
5. History of Ancient Art by Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1902)
"steles from the Acropolis of Mykenae. The masks, like the grave-stones, are formed
with the helpless realism peculiar to the art of Western Asia, ..."
6. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1902)
"A variety of these poles may plainly be seen in Carthage steles ; and closely
associated with them. perhaps, are the quickly fading flowers and rootless ..."
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