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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 874 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STELE , the See also:

Greek name (o siXrt) for a See also:pillar or See also:vertical slab of See also:stone or See also:marble, sometimes decorated with bas-reliefs and bearing See also:inscriptions, and generally terminated with a cresting (ErtOrlµa) enriched with the See also:anthemion plant. In later times the stele was crowned with a small See also:pediment. The Way of the Tombs at See also:Athens was lined with stelae, some of them in memory of prominent citizens.

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