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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Search the whole document.
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1512 BC (search for this): entry obeliscus-augusti-gnomon
October (search for this): entry obeliscus-augusti-gnomon
OBELISCUS AUGUSTI, GNOMON
an obelisk erected at Heliopolis in the
seventh century B.C. by Psammetichus II, brought to Rome by Augustus
in 10 B.C. and set up in the campus Martius between the ara Pacis Augustae
and the columna Antonini Pii (CIL vi. 702; Amm. Marcell. xvii. 4. 12;
Strabo xvii. 805 ; Plin. NH xxxvi. 71). It is of red granite, 21.79 metres
high (cf. Plin. loc. cit.; Notit. Brev.: Jord. ii. 187), and covered with hieroglyphics (BC 1896, 273-283=Ob. Eg. 104-114). It was standing in the
eighth century (Eins. 2. 5; 4. 3), but was thrown down and broken at some
unknown date (BC 1917, 23), and not discovered until 1512 (PBS ii. 3).
It was excavated in 1748, but, in spite of various attempts (LS iv. 151),
it was not set up again in the Piazza di Montecitorio, its present site,
until 1789 (BC 1914, 381). It was repaired with fragments from the
columna Antonini.
Augustus dedicated this obelisk to the Sun (CIL vi. 702) and made it
the gnomon, or needle, of a great meridian The
699 BC - 600 BC (search for this): entry obeliscus-augusti-gnomon
OBELISCUS AUGUSTI, GNOMON
an obelisk erected at Heliopolis in the
seventh century B.C. by Psammetichus II, brought to Rome by Augustus
in 10 B.C. and set up in the campus Martius between the ara Pacis Augustae
and the columna Antonini Pii (CIL vi. 702; Amm. Marcell. xvii. 4. 12;
Strabo xvii. 805 ; Plin. NH xxxvi. 71). It is of red granite, 21.79 metres
high (cf. Plin. loc. cit.; Notit. Brev.: Jord. ii. 187), and covered with hieroglyphics (BC 1896, 273-283=Ob. Eg. 104-114). It was standing in the
eighth century (Eins. 2. 5; 4. 3), but was thrown down and broken at some
unknown date (BC 1917, 23), and not discovered until 1512 (PBS ii. 3).
It was excavated in 1748, but, in spite of various attempts (LS iv. 151),
it was not set up again in the Piazza di Montecitorio, its present site,
until 1789 (BC 1914, 381). It was repaired with fragments from the
columna Antonini.
Augustus dedicated this obelisk to the Sun (CIL vi. 702) and made it
the gnomon, or needle, of a great meridian The
700 AD - 799 AD (search for this): entry obeliscus-augusti-gnomon