Stone monuments and memorials

thumb|One of the two Luxor Obelisks, on the [[Place de la Concorde in Paris; a red granite monolithic column, high, including the base, which weighs over .]] thumb|Lateran Obelisk in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano, [[Rome. With its height of (with the base and the cross it reaches 45.70 m) it is the largest standing ancient monolithic obelisk in the world.]]

upright=1.5|thumb|Large menhir located between Millstreet and [[Ballinagree, County Cork, Ireland]] thumb|The Caramujeira Menhir, currently preserved at the Silves Municipal Archeology Museum, in [[Portugal]] thumb|Cwm Rhaeadr Fawr maen hir (menhir) near Aber Falls, [[Gwynedd, Wales]] thumb|Dry Tree menhir – a standing stone at [[Goonhilly Downs, Cornwall]]

thumb|Poulnabrone dolmen, [[the Burren, County Clare, Ireland]] thumb|Dolmens in Amudalavalasa|Amadalavalasa, [[Andhra Pradesh, India]]

thumb|260px|Stele N from Copán, [[Honduras, depicting King K'ac Yipyaj Chan K'awiil ("Smoke Shell"), as drawn by Frederick Catherwood in 1839]] thumb|Stele to the French 8th Infantry Regiment. Commons:Category:Battle of Waterloo steles|One of more than half a dozen steles located on the Waterloo battlefield. A stele ( ) or stela ( ) is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected in the ancient world as a monument. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both. These may be inscribed, carved in relief, or painted.

Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus lid.|right|thumb right|thumb|upright=1.3|Roman Empire|Roman sarcophagus with the myth of [[Medea, , from Rome, exhibited in the Antikensammlung Berlin (Berlin)]] right|thumb|upright=1.3|Roman sarcophagus with Apollo, [[Minerva and the Muses, , from Via Appia, exhibited in the Antikensammlung Berlin]] thumb|upright=1.3|The Gothic art|Gothic sarcophagi of Don Àlvar Rodrigo de Cabrera, count of [[Urgell and his wife Cecília of Foix, , made of limestone, traces of paint, exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)]]

thumb|upright=1|Captain Andrew Drake (1684–1743) sandstone gravestone from the Stelton Baptist Church, Edison|Stelton Baptist Church in [[Edison, New Jersey]] A gravestone or tombstone is a marker, usually stone, that is placed over a grave. A marker set at the head of the grave may be called a headstone. An especially old or elaborate stone slab may be called a funeral stele, stela, or slab. The use of such markers is traditional for Chinese, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic burials, as well as other traditions. In East Asia, the tomb's spirit tablet is the focus for ancestral veneration and ma

right|thumb|upright|The Lingsberg Runestone, Sweden, known as U 240 right|thumb|upright|An early runestone: the Möjbro Runestone from Hagby (first placed near Möjebro), [[Uppland, Sweden. As with other early runic inscriptions, (e.g. Kylver Stone from about 300–400 CE) this is written from right to left, while later Runestones were written from left to right. The text is "Frawaradaz anahaha is laginaz".]]

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naval victory column type

ornate slab of stone from ancient Northern Europe

monument in the form of a column

monumental stele, generally carved or incised with symbols or designs

Hinterschellenberg is a settlement in Schellenberg, Liechtenstein.

linear arrangement of upright, parallel megalithic standing stones

Buddhist prayer stone

monument in Brno, Czech Republic

Ancient Roman funerary practice

thumb|Waruga with carvings thumb|Sawangan waruga

monument in Sabah, Malaysia