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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

An upright carved or inscribed stone slab or pillar erected as a public monument, marker or commemorative object—typically bearing inscriptions, relief sculpture or symbols to record names, events, laws, ownership or funerary information.