Stela Freitas
A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), when derived from Latin, is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted. Stelae were created for many reasons. Grave stelae were used for funerary or commemorative purposes. Stelae as slabs of stone would also be used as ancient Greek and Roman government notices or as boundary markers to mark borders or property lines. Stelae were occasionally erected as memorials to battles. For example, along with other memorials, there are more than half-a-dozen steles erected on the battlefield of Waterloo at the locations of notable actions by participants in battle. A trad ...
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Stele (other)
A stele (plural steles or stelai) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, very often for funerary or commemorative purposes. Stele may also refer to: Stele monuments *See Stele#Notable_steles, the list at Stele *Stele Forest, a museum for steles in Xi'an, China People with the surname *Veronica Stele (born 1977), Argentine tennis player Other uses

*Stele (biology), in a vascular plant, the central part of the root or stem *Stele (Kurtág), ''Stele'' (Kurtág), a composition for orchestra by Hungarian composer György Kurtág (1994) *''Stele II'', an abstract sculpture (1973) by Ellsworth Kelly {{disambiguation, surname ...
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