Steles

One of his steles, which is now in the Imperial Ottoman Museum at Constantinople, depicts him as a fully bearded man with Semitic characteristics. ❋ Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1904)

Ionic and Corinthian monuments, however, as well as minor works such as steles, altars, etc., were richly adorned with carved mouldings and friezes, festoons, acroteria, and other embellishments executed with the chisel. ❋ Unknown (1890)

Words I'm surprised Word do know: caravanserais, steles ❋ Matociquala (2009)

She sat on the floor with Nathaniel as the Shadowhunters moved around her, drawing on one another with their steles. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2010)

They call it the Glass City because its towers are shaped from the same demon-repelling substance as our steles; in the sunlight they sparkle like glass. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)

Also, in regard to the issue of gnostics and inscriptions on steles attributed to Seth, Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews mentions a pillar made by Seth. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

Everywhere was the flash of steles as Downworlders and Shadowhunters came together in pairs and Marked each other. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)

All steles had a sort of aura to them, a ghostly imprint of their owners personality. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)

The landscape eclipses the figures turns into stems steles ❋ David McDuff (2009)

It took them a short while with their steles to break in through the locked gates, and another while to find a spot hidden enough for Raphael to begin digging. ❋ Cassandra Clare (2009)

I saw the exhibition of statues and other sculptures steles - memoration stones - were painted as well and was struck at how *right* the colours looked after a few minutes. ❋ James Gurney (2008)

“The best-preserved data tends to be on stone steles and cuneiform tablets,” Billington told me when I went to the library to hear about its recent attempts to solve the “digital preservation” problem. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Using terminology like nebesh is characteristic of West Semitic mortuary beliefs, or beliefs about death and afterlife," he says, "but it's quite unusual in other ways because this stele, with Kuttamuwa's soul in it, was found in a small, private mortuary chapel — no others have been found in their original architectural context at all — and so we never before had information about how these steles would have been used." ❋ Unknown (2008)

The granite inselberg of Yamaalyg is especially rich in burial mounds, petroglyphs, steles and effigies. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These include ancient burial mounds (kurgans), carved stone steles and rock drawings in the southern part of the Yamaalig massif; also evidence of more recent occupation by Buddhist monasteries and the military. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As soon as astronomers calculated that Hale-Bopp last visited 4,210 years ago, archeologists scurried to scrutinize steles, hieroglyphics and Chinese oracle bones for some sign that ancient civilizations had noted the apparition. ❋ Unknown (2008)