The New York Obelisk, Cleopatra's Needle: With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks |
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Alexandria Amen Åmen-mer-Râ-meses-su ancient Egyptians ânkh beloved bull king Cæsar called cartouches Cleopatra VI column of hieroglyphs countries Egypt crabs Deḥuti diadems disk Domitian EAST 65 EAST CENT Edfu Egyp Egyptian name erect obelisk face famous Fayoom forever goddess gods gracious Greek Hatasu hawk hawk-faced deity Heliopolis Hor-pet Hyksos i. e. Behold Pharaoh inscriptions Karnak Khnum king of Upper Lepsius Letter lord Lower Egypt Luxor Memphis Men-kheper-Râ Menthu modern name monuments name in Egyptian neb taui nefer Nekheb Nile nome of Upper NORTH 62 NORTH CENT Noun nuter Obelisk in Rome Osarkon Osiris Pharaoh Philæ preceding word present Pron Psametik Ptah Ptolemy pyramid pyramidion qa nekht quarry queen Râ the Sun's Râ-Hor-khuti Ramses Ramses II Rome Sebek Seti sphinx stone sun-god Sun's offspring suten-kaut temple th Dynasty Thebes Thothmes Upper and Lower Upper Egypt User-Mâ-Râ-sotep-en-Râ Usertesen Verb WEST 70 worship York Obelisk
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Page 29 - Winter; beginning respectively at the vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice...
Page 83 - FIRST CLAW: THE COST OF REMOVING FROM EGYPT AND PLACING ON THIS SPOT THIS OBELISK, PEDESTAL, AND BASE, WAS BORNE BY WILLIAM H. VANDERBILT. FOURTH CRAB, SECOND CLAW: LIEUTENANT- COMMANDER HENRY H.
Page 18 - ... skilled stone-cutters under the direction of scribes. Whether the figures of these inscriptions were filled out with copper or gold, as some maintain, is extremely doubtful. With the pyramidion it was different. While its usual dedicatory inscriptions remained undoubtedly as they were chiseled, the point or apex seems to have been surmounted by gold or gilded bronze.
Page 54 - The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, the Lord of the two ountries RA-USER-MA, Approved of AMEN