...On the mound was erected a truncated obelisk, the stone emblem of the Sun-god...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
... The left-hand obelisk is the highest in Egypt, and was erected by Hatshepsu; the right-hand obelisk was put up by Thothmes III...
L.W. King and H.R. Hall 「History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, And Assyria In The Light Of Recent Discovery」
...It was quarriedat Assuan, from a richly colored vein of redgranite, and was brought to Rome, probablyunder Domitian, together with the obelisk nowin the Piazza del Pantheon...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
..., when he removed the obelisk from the spina ofthe circus to the piazza; the second by Paul V...
Rodolfo Lanciani 「Pagan and Christian Rome」
...And hence the obelisk is the most suitable of all forms toindicate in our cemeteries the glorious truth of the resurrection,life rising victorious out of the transitory condition of death...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...The obelisk belongs essentially to a level country; and there is nohabitable region in the world so uniformly flat and unbroken by anyelevations or depressions of surface as the valley of the Nile...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...The surroundings of this obelisk are fargrander than those of any other obelisk in the world...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...The history of the Lateran obelisk is unusually varied...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...Next in point of height to the Lateran obelisk is the one that standsin the great square of St...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...On account of this peculiarity, someauthors have not hesitated to consider it a mere imitation obelisk,constructed by the Romans at a comparatively late period...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...This obelisk has a special interestbecause it commemorates one of the most beautiful and touchingexamples of self-sacrifice which the annals of paganism afford...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
..." Only one obelisk in Rome was not restored orre-erected by any Pope, viz...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
..." The Egyptian obelisk is thus but a typeof a great law of nature...
Hugh Macmillan 「Roman Mosaics」
...The simplest form of dial is an obelisk on a flat pavement, but ithas the very important drawback that the graduation is different fordifferent times of the year...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...He was buried in the DevonshireStreet cemetery, and on the 25th of May, 1901, his remains were removedto the obelisk in the Botanic Gardens...
Ernest Favenc 「The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work」
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