0 a vertical piece of stone with writing cut into it, often used in the past as a gravestone (= a stone that shows where a dead person is buried):
The stone tablets, or stelae, confirm the city as Heraklieon.
A commemorative stele has been erected to honor Yu the Great.
Following the unveiling of the stele, the closing ceremonies began, which essentially reversed the opening ones.
This liveliness, however, is tempered in both stelae.
It seems likely that these features resulted from human modification, specifically as a byproduct of ceremonies centered on stelae endowed with sacredness.
In other words, the stelae record the repeated embodied experience of physical exertion.
The stelae symbolize the connection of the world of the living and the underworld.
