On the pyramidion of the obelisk he is represented by a sphinx presenting gifts of water and wine to Tum, the setting sun, a solar deity worshipped at Heliopolis.
The Inscriptions at the base of each side are much mutilated, and those on the Pyramidion are not shown in the Plate.
From this hieroglyphic sentence we learn that the pyramidion of each obelisk was covered or capped with some metal, probably copper.
In the plate attached to his essay, Hittorf gives us a plan and elevation of the pyramidion of the smaller obelisk of Luxor.
It was necessary, therefore, to give them a gentle entasis which should gradually diminish towards the summit, completely disappearing by the time the pyramidion was reached.
I asked, as we stopped in the shade of the pyramidion of an obelisk, in front of the temple porch.
I could see them steal along the tangled avenue beneath the palm-trees, and through that of the broken sphinxes, until they came to the pyramidion of the obelisk of Sesostris I.
When I am laid in the sarcophagus, which I have caused to be hewn out in the chamber beneath the pyramidion of my obelisk, I shall know and behold nothing of thy dominion.
On the pyramidion base of the left obelisk in front of the temple of Osiris, have I not seen reposing four small sphinxes copied from this?
Scenes of offerings to Ra Harmakhis, Hor, Tûm, or Amen are engraved on the sides of the pyramidion and on the upper part of the prism.
The pyramidion which terminates them generally represents in its sculptures the king who erected the obelisk making different offerings to the principal deity of the temple, and to other divinities.
The short inscriptions of the pyramidionbear the oval of the king and the name of the divinity.
This finished, sloping masses were erected against it so as to form, with the pyramidion of the first mass, a second pyramid.
The apex of this pyramid, a pyramidion of a single stone, might be put in place and the work considered finished (Fig.
The notion of spitting an the sharp point of the pyramidion is supremely absurd.
It has been said that it was sometimes surmounted by a gilt star, but I doubt this, for the casing of the pyramidion would of itself have much the same effect.
The Egyptians often covered the whole pyramidion with a closely fitted gilt bronze cap, the effect of which most have been magnificent.
Not less so is the substitution of a low hipped roof for am acute pyramidion, or the making of a window in the face of the pyramidion or of the shaft, both which atrocities were committed in the Bunker Hill Monument.
In any case, if the height of the pyramidion is not greater than the side of its base, the summit will have a truncated shape quite out of harmony with the soaring character of the structure.
The height of the pyramidion is equal to the length of a side of the base of the shaft, and therefore greater than the side of its own base.
Second, of a pyramidion or apex, the form and proportions of which are constant.
To Mr. Green is to be ascribed the conception and working out of the plans for placing the pyramidion or top on the shaft, plans adopted by the Engineer-in-Charge and approved by the Joint Commission.
Flowers of the temple of the pyramidion were brought to him and blossoms were given to him.
We know of the Obelisk of Karnak, erected by queen Hatasu, that the apex of its pyramidion was covered with "pure gold", as the inscription on the obelisk itself states.
The frequent mention of the pyramidion and the evident importance attached by the king to his visit to this sanctuary plainly show that there was a deep signification lying hidden beneath the strange upper part of the obelisk.
The pictures of the four sides of the pyramidion here given are reproduced from the squeezes taken under the direction of Mr. Gorringe as published in his "Egyptian Obelisks".
The pyramidion of the obelisk, on the other hand, was called benben by the Egyptians.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pyramidion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
