Round-arched openings for bells occur on each side, and within the crowning balustrade with its obelisks a stone dome rises to an eight-sided domed lantern.
There are twelve obelisks in the different public squares of Rome, all brought from Egypt.
Two obelisks of red granite, covered with hieroglyphics, are the only ornaments of this place.
So he wandered through the vast courts, down the avenues of giant pillars, passed under the mighty pylons, between the lofty monolithic obelisks and the colossi which gazed upon him with their great, frightened eyes.
The columns of Trajan and Antonine were still erect; but the Egyptian obelisks were broken or buried.
The mechanics who had understood how to move the obelisks and colossi from the cataract to Alexandria, could here again find opportunity to test their brains and former skill.
Here the light of the weltering sun enhanced the brilliancy of colour in the flags and streamers which fluttered beside the obelisks and Egyptian pylons, over the triumphal arches and the gates of the temples and palaces.
Its obelisks form at this day, on account of their beauty as well as height, the principal ornament of Rome; and the Roman power, despairing to equal the Egyptians, thought it honour enough to borrow the monuments of their kings.
There are still to be seen some obelisks which escaped his fury; and others were brought from thence to Rome, to which city they are an ornament even at this day.
The emperor Augustus, having made Egypt a province of the empire, caused these two obelisks to be transported to Rome, one whereof was afterwards broken to pieces.
Sesostris erected in the city of Heliopolis two obelisks of extreme hard stone, brought from the quarries of Syene, at the extremity of Egypt.
Another cause of discrepancy in the measurements may be, that the adjacent sides of the obelisks are of different dimensions; which is generally the case.
Forty-eight obeliskswere once erected in Rome, of which thirty have disappeared and left no trace.
When the laden ships arrived at the Marmoratum the obelisks were hauled on shore by men and horses and then dragged and pushed on rollers along the streets by gangs of workmen.
Marble columns and granite obelisks lie prone upon the ground, and many more have found graves beneath the soil.
The obelisks were cut in a single shaft, most of them from granite quarries near Assuan.
Obelisks were always erected in pairs, and the companion of this one was removed some years ago to Paris.
The hieroglyphics upon the walls, the columns, the obelisks and the statues, after remaining a puzzle for ages, have been deciphered and woven into a consecutive history.
Cleopatra's Needle is one of two great obelisks which one of these Pharaohs erected, and placed one on each side of the entrance to the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.
This book gives full account of all obelisks brought to Europe from Egypt, their measurements, inscriptions, and transportation.
Before the outer gates were obelisksand avenues of statues.
Originally it stood as one of the forest of obelisks surrounding the great temple of the Sun-god at Heliopolis, so long a seat of Egyptian learning and religion, dating back, it is thought, to the fifteenth century before Christ.
He caused two obelisks to be erected over their graves, and two days in every year he would come and sit beside these obelisks, which were called al-GhariyyAin--i.
While the obelisks stand that were set up by the great Hyksos Pharaoh whose descendant was Abi's mother, while the obelisks stand that are set there for all eternity, we will not acknowledge you.
There in the red light they stood, and stared, and since the place was open to the sky, the shadows of the two towering obelisks without fell on them like the shadows of swords whereof the points met together at the foot of Tua's throne.
Fool, do you not remember the fall of the eternal obelisks upon my captains, and what befell that man who mocked her, calling her Bastard, and sought refuge among the priests?
Tua repeated after him, "while the obelisks stand that the Hyksos thief set up you will not acknowledge me, Pharaoh's bastard daughter!
Between the towering obelisks that stood on either side the open cedar doors, folk hung upon its steps like hiving bees; the vast square without and all the streets that led to it were black with them.
Well might she laugh, for the two great obelisks without the gate that the old Hyksos lion had set up there to stand "to all eternity," had fallen across the low pylons and the doors and crushed them.
We can fancy the imposing ceremonies which took place in erecting the obelisks in front of the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.
He ordered to be executed two obelisks of gigantic dimensions for the City of On, or City of the Sun, the name of which was changed by the Greeks to Heliopolis, a word signifying the same thing.
When the Romans took possession of the country, the two obelisks that had been erected by Rameses II.
In Rome there are a number of obelisks of different sizes that had been brought from Egypt by the Romans.
The two obelisks were nearly of the same dimensions; and standing in their original position in front of the Temple of the Sun, they must have had a most imposing appearance.
Both obelisks were inscribed with hieroglyphics, signifying that they were erected to the god Ra, or the Rising Sun, and to Tum, or the Setting Sun, which identify them with the most ancient and perhaps most poetical superstition in the world.
And where is now Heliopolis, the City of the Sun, at which these grand obelisks were set up and venerated by the ancient rulers of the country?
During the lifetime of Thothmes, the obeliskswere cut out of the quarries of Elephantine, which consist of the rose-coloured granite of Syene, or Es-souan.
The preparation of the two obelisks was the work of years.
The setting up of the two venerable obelisks may have been part of her plan; but although the monoliths are called Cleopatra's Needles, it is certain that Cleopatra had nothing to do with their transfer from Heliopolis to Alexandria.
The hieroglyphs are always arranged on the obeliskswith great taste, in long vertical columns, and these were always carved after the obelisk was placed in its permanent position.
He has made as it were monuments to his father Haremakhu; he has set up two great obelisks capped with gold at the first festival of Triakonteris.
Hence obelisksare found only on the east bank of the Nile, while pyramids are built on the west side, by the edge of the silent desert.
The chief obelisks known, taking them in chronological order, are as follows:--Three were erected by Usertesen I.
The total number of existing obelisks is fifty-five.
XVIIIth dynasty, erected two obelisks in front of his temple at Karnak; but the temple is in ruins, and the obelisks have entirely disappeared.
Egypt, erected two obelisks inside the Osiris temple of Karnak, in honour of her father.
Among obelisks of obscure origin is one of sandstone nine feet high at Alnwick; two in the town of Florence, and one sixty feet high, in the city of Arles, made of grey granite from the neighbouring quarries of Mont Esterel.
Cleopatra, it appears, was much beloved by her subjects; and it is not improbable that they associated her name with the twoobelisks as a means of perpetuating the affectionate regard for her memory.
Two large obelisks were transported from Egypt to Nineveh in 664 B.
Cooper draws attention to the fact that obelisks were capped with metals, and pyramids were covered with polished stones.
The hieroglyphs on obelisks and other granite monuments are sculptured with a precision and delicacy that excite the admiration of the nineteenth century.
The obelisks of the Pharaohs are made of red granite called Syenite.
Obelisks were nearly always erected in pairs in front of the pylons of the temples, and added to the dignity of the entrance.
To him we are indebted alike for the rock temples of Nubia, and the inimitable obelisks of Luxor.
On each side of them, a little in advance, at the time of my visit, were the two most perfect obelisks remaining.
On each side of them, a little in advance, rise the two most perfect obelisks that remain, also of red granite, and each about eighty feet high.
What to think, effectively, of the types of the personages whose portraits are carved on the obelisks of Copan?
It was not only upon rocks and eminences that these Cippi and Obelisks were placed by the antients: they were to be found in their temples, where for many ages a rude stock or stone served for a representation of the Deity.
And there is room to think, that the pillars and obelisks were made use of for beacons, and that every temple was a Pharos.
There is no dragoman who understands all 'bout obeliskslike Ibrahim.
One of the two obelisks of the Campus Martius, on which site the Church of S.
Two of the obelisks which adorned the temple of Amon were taken down from their pedestals and placed on rafts to be transported to Nineveh, and we shall perhaps unearth them some day from its ruins.
So are explained those massive domes of gold, those obelisks of silver, and all those marvels of which the boastful and enthusiastic minds of the Spaniards afforded them a glimpse.
They had obelisks and exact gnomons to mark the equinoxes and solstices.
These quarries are the very same from which the ancient obeliskswere hewn.
Probably the pair ofobelisks of the tomb of Antef V.
In France the condition of the inferior ranks of people is seldom so happy as it frequently is in England, and you will there seldom find even pyramids and obelisks of yew in the garden of a tallow-chandler.
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