stele

stone or wooden slab erected for funerals or commemorative purposes
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stele

Summary

stele ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,870 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • stele is made of metal[2].
  • stele is a type of monument[3].
  • stele is a type of archaeological artefact[4].
  • stele is a type of memorial[5].
  • stele is a type of artificial physical object[6].
  • stele's Commons category is recorded as Steles[7].
  • stele's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Steles[8].
  • stele's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as memorial=stele[9].
  • stele's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • stele's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • stele's described by source is recorded as Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[12].
  • stele's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13].
  • stele's native label is recorded as Stela[14].
  • stele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Archaeology[15].
  • stele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Ancient Egypt[16].
  • stele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Ancient Near East[17].
  • stele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome[18].
  • stele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mesoamerica[19].
  • stele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject China[20].
  • stele's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Death[21].
  • stele's P14541 is recorded as 2LxXgR[22].
  • stele's P14692 is recorded as Steinfurt[23].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include monument[3], archaeological artefact[4], memorial[5], and artificial physical object[6].

Why It Matters

stele ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,870 views/month).[1] stele has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[24] stele is known by 47 alternative names across languages and contexts.[25]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · BiblioJu · 2026-09-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Archaeology, WikiProject Ancient Egypt, WikiProject Ancient Near East +4
    Made from material → metal
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P186]]: [[Q11426]]"
  2. 19d ago · Treisijs · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Archaeology, WikiProject Ancient Egypt, WikiProject Ancient Near East +4
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P6104]]: [[Q10801979]]"
  3. 6w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Steinfurt
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  4. 10w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Akhmad Kadyrov
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P11493]]: Q297006, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  5. 12w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2LxXgR
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  6. 14w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Oxford classical dictionary id → 6072
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P9106]]: 6072, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107288045|stele (#107288045)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Classical Dictionary]]"
  7. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0320651-stely
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: 0320651-stely, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  8. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Described by source → Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon +1
    Topic's main category → Category:Steles
    Aliases → —
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007534033005171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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