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Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK XXXVI. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF STONES., CHAP. 14.—OBELISKS. (search)
es which we still see engraved thereon are no other than Egyptian letters.These figures or hieroglyphics did not denote the phonetic language of Egypt, but only formed a symbolical writing. At a later period other kings had these obelisks hewn. SesosthesPerhaps the same as "Sesostris." The former reading is "Sothis." erected four of them in the above-named city, forty-eight cubits in height. Rhamsesis,Ajasson identifies him with Rameses III., a king of the eighteenth dynasty, who reigned B.C. 1561. This was also one of the names of Sesostris the Great. too, who was reigning at the time of the capture of Troy, erected one, a hundred and forty cubits high. Having quitted the spot where the palace of MnevisThe name of the bull divinity worshipped by the people of On, or Heliopolis; while by the people of Memphis it was known as Apis. stood, this monarch erected another obelisk,This, Hardouin says, was the same obelisk that was afterwards erected by Constantius, son of Constantine the G