Question

Which of the following structures is an example of a stele?

A) a low-lying building with pillars and intricate carvings depicting religious rites
B) a brick building built to house religious artifacts and decorated with paints and icons
C) a tall monument that a group of people built for their deceased king.
D) a wide-based structure with a gradual taper that ends in a pointed tip

Answer 1

The correct answer is C) a tall monument that a group of people built for their deceased king.

The structure that is an example of a stele is a tall monument that a group of people built for their deceased king.

A stele is a tall piece of stone or wood, mostly a slab, many times used in graves to carve the names of the people. For instance, the Greeks sculpted the image of the people in the slab. There are other forms of steles such as the Mayan Steles found by archeologists in the Yucatan Peninsula in México. The Mayan steles were tall slabs made or rock, in which Mayas recorded information that modern-day archeologists have not been able to decipher.

Answer 2

C) a tall monument that a group of people built for their deceased king.

Step-by-step explanation:

A stele (or stela) is a stone or wooden slab that was erected in Ancient times as a monument. These were usually used for commemorative or funerary purposes, for example, as a remembrance symbol for a deceased king. In Ancient Greece and Rome, steles were often built as government notices or boundary markers. The word is usually applied to this type of structures in the context of Europe, the ancient Near East, Egypt, China and Pre-Columbian America.