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Flaminio Obelisk

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Flaminio Obelisk
Obelisco Flaminio
Flaminio Obelisk in Piazza del Popolo.
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The Flaminio Obelisk (Italian: Obelisco Flaminio) is one of the thirteen ancient obelisks in Rome, Italy. It is located in the Flaminio quarter on Piazza del Popolo.

It is 24 m (67 ft) high and with the base and the cross reaches 36.50 m (100 ft).

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History

The Nineteenth Dynasty pharaoh Seti I quarried this obelisk from granite quarries in Aswan. Before his death, artists inscribed three of the four faces of the obelisk, which Seti intended to erect in the Temple of Re in Heliopolis.[1] Seti's son and successor Ramesses II completed its inscriptions and set it up in Heliopolis.

It was brought to Rome in 10 BC by command of Augustus, together with the Obelisk of Montecitorio, and placed on the spina of the Circus Maximus, followed three centuries later by the Lateran Obelisk. Like most Egyptian obelisks, the Flaminio Obelisk was probably one of a pair, but no trace of its companion has been found. In Seti I's dedicatory inscription on one side of the shaft, the king boasts that he would "fill Heliopolis with obelisks."

The obelisk was rediscovered in 1587, broken into three pieces, together with the Lateran Obelisk; and was erected in the Piazza del Popolo by Domenico Fontana in 1589, at the command of Pope Sixtus V. Sixtus had the Septizodium demolished to provide the travertine for the obelisk's pedestal, among other building projects.[2]

In 1823, Giuseppe Valadier embellished it with a base having four circular basins and stone lions, imitating the Egyptian style.

See also

References

  1. ^ Brand 1997, p. 101.
  2. ^ Curran et al. 2009, pp. 137–138.

Bibliography

  • Brand, Peter J. (1997). "The 'Lost' Obelisks and Colossi of Seti I". Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 34: 101–114. doi:10.2307/40000801. JSTOR 40000801.
  • Brand, Peter (2000). The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic, Historical, and Art Historical Analysis. Leiden. ISBN 978-9004117709.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Curran, Brian A.; Grafton, Anthony; Long, Pamela O.; Weiss, Benjamin (2009). Obelisk: A History. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-51270-1.
  • Cesare D'Onofrio, Gli obelischi di Roma, Bulzoni, 1967
  • L'Italia. Roma (guida rossa), Touring Club Italiano, Milano 2004
  • Armin Wirsching, Obelisken transportieren und aufrichten in Aegypten und in Rom, Norderstedt 2007 (2nd ed. 2010), ISBN 978-3-8334-8513-8

External links

Media related to Flaminio obelisk (Rome) at Wikimedia Commons

Preceded by
Lateran Obelisk
Landmarks of Rome
Flaminio Obelisk
Succeeded by
Elephant and Obelisk
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