“A stele is a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, a cippus (boundary stone), erect slab, i.e. placed in a vertical position, sometimes sculpted or painted, and sometimes with commemorative or legislative texts inscribed on it. The term covers most of the terms used by archaeologists (proto-menhir, menhir, statue-menhir, menhir-statue, etc.) […]”
(Cassen 2009).