stela

English Thesaurus

1. an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	antiquity,
definition	:	an artifact surviving from the past (noun.artifact)

hypernym	:	stone,
definition	:	building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose (noun.artifact)

instance hyponym	:	rosetta stone,
definition	:	a part of an inscribed granite stela that was originally about six feet tall and was set up in 196 BC; the inscriptions in hieroglyphics and Demotic and Greek gave the first clues to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphics (noun.communication)