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a stone slab that outlived every empire dumb enough to carve threats into it
law in stoneHammurabi's Code lives on a 7-foot diorite stele
victory billboardsEgyptians used them as ancient propaganda boards
grave markerGreek funeral steles named the dead in carved relief
translation keythe Rosetta Stone is technically a stele fragment
plural plotcorrect plural is stelae, not steles