stelography

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “post, slab, pillar”) +‎ -graphy.

Noun

stelography (uncountable)

1. The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars.
   • 1767, Thomas Stackhouse, chapter IV, in A new history of the Holy Bible:

     […] this pillar thus engraved (as it was the first of its kind that we have upon record) gave probably the origin to the invention of stelography, or the ancient manner of writing upon stone, ever after […]