stelae in English
Scribes carved hieroglyphs on stone stelae , altars, wooden lintels, and roof beams, or painted them on ceramic vessels and in books made of bark paper.
Use "stelae" in a sentence
1. Two grave stelae bearing her name were discovered near her tomb.
2. The expedition is attested via four stelae set up at Wadi el-Hudi.
3. Stelae 12 and 13 stand before structure 40 and Stela 11 once stood between them.
4. All display slightly bulging eyes, a feature also present on selected stelae depicting the pharaoh.
5. The massive ruins, dating from between the 1st and the 13th century A.D., include monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs and the ruins of ancient castles.