How to Use stela in a Sentence

stela

noun
  • Significantly, the stela is written entirely in hieroglyphs, unlike previous examples that were written in Demotic and Greek.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The stela highlights both the historical role of the Nile Delta and the continuing value of Egypt’s ancient sites in understanding the country’s political and religious history.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Made in Ancient Egypt, which opened this month at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum, features commemorative stela, golden coffins and masks, and sundry curios created in a style that changed very little down the centuries.
    — Brendan Ruberry, semafor.com, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Hieroglyph-only Decree The Canopus Decree stela discovered at Tell El-Fara’in is the first intact hieroglyph-only copy found in over 150 years.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • The stela offers a rare, unfiltered look at how Egypt’s traditions were expressed under Ptolemaic rule, highlighting the decree’s importance for understanding religion, governance, and royal ideology.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Unearthed at the renowned Tell El-Fara’in site, located in the city of El-Husseiniya in the Sharqia Governorate in the eastern Nile Delta, the stela is the first intact copy of the decree to be discovered in more than 150 years.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Measuring 4 feet 2 inches high, 2 feet 9 inches wide, and nearly 1 foot 7 inches thick, the stela documents a proclamation made by King Ptolemy III Euergetes 2,263 years ago.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 14 Sep. 2025

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