"Stele" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and first published in 1902; perhaps the most important single monument of early civilization which has thus far come to light. The laws, written in the Babylonian (Semitic) language, and engraved on a stele of hard black stone, were about two hundred and eighty in number, and bear an interesting general resemblance to the old Hebrew laws, especially those preserved in Exodus xxi. ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher
... arrow, that a cloth-yarde was long, to the harde stele halyde he; A dynt that was both sad and soar he set ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various |
