Standing stone eroded front and back in ancient mount (3)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

a STELE is another word for a standing stone, remove the first and last leaves TEL, which I didn’t exactly know but it sounded likely to be a Hebrew word as in Tel Aviv and so on. Indeed I see it means “mount” in Hebrew, especially of an old ruined city.