Stela: alternatives and connections

The uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, immediately under the architrave. See Column.

The lower division of an entablature, or that part which rests immediately on the column, esp. in classical architecture. See Column.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

The lower part of a complete architectural design, as of a monument; also, the lower part of any elaborate piece of furniture or decor…

The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue.

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc. It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking. Se…

An empty tomb or a monument erected in honor of a person who is buried elsewhere.

A small, low pillar, square or round, commonly having an inscription, used by the ancients for various purposes, as for indicating the…

Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air,…

Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly i…

A monument in the form of a cross, or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing C…

To destroy or mar the face or external appearance of; to disfigure; to injure, spoil, or mar, by effacing or obliterating important fe…

To cause to disappear (as anything impresses or inscribed upon a surface) by rubbing out, striking out, etc.; to erase; to render ille…

Upon or above the notochord; -- applied esp. to a vertebral column which develops upon the dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguis…

A massive piece of stone or wood laid immediately on the abacus of the capital of a column or pillar; -- now called architrave.

A brief writing formed as if to be inscribed on a monument, as that concerning Alexander: "Sufficit huic tumulus, cui non sufficeret o…