He went to Deir el Bahri and carved her name out of all the places he could find. Yet Hatshepsut remained. To get around this, Tuthmosis had walled it in. Today, when you go to Karnak Temple, you can see the two obelisks that are still standing. Learn more about how quarrying, transporting, and erecting an obelisk is an even greater engineering feat than the building of a pyramid.
From ancient sources, it may be safe to say that Hatshepsut was most proud of the obelisks. She talked about having quarried two obelisks in seven months, transported them on a single barge, and then erected them at Karnak Temple. On the base of her obelisk, she talks about the obelisks. They could be seen from the other side of the Nile, their tips gleaming in electrum. So the tip, the pyramid part, was gold-plated, so to speak. Hatshepsut used her obelisks as a form of propaganda, but you also gain insight.
Pharaoh Ramses II had more than a dozen obelisks. He had small ones in a city in the Delta, but he also erected two huge ones at Luxor Temple.
One is still standing. Ramses had constructed quite a few obelisks. The quarrying, construction, and erecting of an obelisk is a fascinating topic.
Pink granite. All obelisks come from the same quarry at Aswan. This was the major site of pink granite. We even call it Aswan granite. Granite was used in obelisk construction, especially large structures, because it is a stone material with an internal structural strength that can support its own weight.
I have not slept concerning his temple. I do not hide what I go through. My heart is like Sia goddess of wisdom in front of my father, for I understand my father's wishes.
I have not neglected the city of the Lord of All, but have given it my all. Therefore I know it is the horizon on earth, the great hill of beginning, the good eye of the Lord of All, in place of his heart which shows his beauty, encompassing all who follow him.
The king himself says I have put it before the people who shall come in the future, whose hearts care for this monument which I have made for my father. Those who shall talk in discussion, who shall look into the future. It is I who lives in the palace, I who remember my creator. My heart led me to make obelisks of electrum.
From them I speak to the sky, in the honourable court of columns, between the two great pylons of the great king, the strong bull, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Aakheperkare, deceased. Truly my heart turns this way and that, concerning what people speak and think - people who will see my monument years later, who will speak of what I have made.
Beware of saying, 'I do not know why you have made that' - a mountain fashioned entirely of gold like that which has been made, which lives for Re, and loves me. As long as my father Amun supports me and refreshes my nose with life and well-being, I have worn the white crown, and I shine in the red crown. The masters Horus and Seth have united the Two Lands for me.
I have ruled this land like the son of Isis Horus. I am strong like the son of Nut. Whereas Re sets in the boat of night and rises in the boat of morning, he gathered his mother in the Holy Boat. As long as the sky is there and his work is steady, I shall be forever like the star that does not end. I shall reign in the other life like Aten. As for the two great obelisks, I have made them of electrum for my father Amun, for my name to last forever in this temple. The supplanting of the bull of Montu with the ram of Amon coincides with the astronomical shift from the age of Taurus, the bull, to the age of Aries, the ram; the earlier temple of Montu had lost its significance with the astronomical change and thus a new temple was constructed to be used in alignment with the current configuration of the stars.
The photograph shows an obelisk erected by Queen Hatshepsut BC. It is 97 feet tall and weighs approximately tons some sources say tons. An inscription at its base indicates that the work of cutting the monolith out of the quarry required seven months of labor.
Nearby stands a smaller obelisk erected by Tuthmosis I - BC. It is 75 feet high, has sides 6 feet wide at its base, and weighs between and tons. Hatshepsut raised four obelisks at Karnak, only one of which still stands. The Egyptian obelisks were always carved from single pieces of stone, usually pink granite from the distant quarries at Aswan, but exactly how they were transported hundreds of miles and then erected without block and tackle remains a mystery.
Of the hundreds of obelisks that once stood in Egypt, only nine now stand; ten more lay broken, victims of conquerors, or of the religious fanaticism of competing cults. The rest are buried or have been carried away to foreign lands where they stand in the central parks and museum concourses of New York, Paris, Rome, Istanbul and other cities. The use of the obelisks is even more of a mystery than their carving and means of erection. While the obelisks are usually covered with inscriptions, these offer no clue to their function, but are instead commemorative notations indicating when and by whom the obelisk was carved.
It has been suggested that the erection of the obelisk was a gesture symbolizing the 'djed' pillar, the Osirian symbol standing for the backbone of the physical world and the channel through which the divine spirit might rise to rejoin its source. John Anthony West notes that the obelisks were usually erected in pairs, one obelisk being taller than the other, and that the dimensions of the obelisk and the precise angles of its shaft and pyramidion cap originally plated in electrum, an alloy of silver and gold were calculated according to geodetic data pertaining to the exact latitude and longitude where the obelisk was set.
Ancient Egyptians adorned their temple facades with pairs of obelisks to honor their gods and recall the great deeds of their pharaohs. With four rectangular sides covered with hieroglyphic inscriptions, the obelisk is designed to lead the viewer's eye toward the sky, tall and straight ending in a four-sided pyramid. The obelisk originated during Egypt's Old Kingdom B. Pharaoh Senworset I B. Giant Egyptian obelisks weigh hundreds of tons and are composed of solid pieces of granite quarried at Aswan in southern Egypt.
Modern obelisks, big and small, are found all over the world and the U. Keep information free! Africanus Eusebius Jerome Manetho. The obelisks of Ancient Egypt Obelisks were prominently placed in pairs at the entrance of temples by the Ancient Egyptians. Inscriptions: 3 columns on each 4 sides Description: Both obelisks were still standing in , but today only the southern of the pair remain.
It is leaning slightly. Somehow the obelisk survived. Inscriptions: 3 columns on each 4 sides Description: Still standing in its original location to the left east of the entrance to the Luxor temple, its twin to the right west of the entrance was given to France and moved to Paris in III, plates Inscriptions: 3 columns on each 4 sides Description: Originally standing to the right west of the entrance to the Luxor Temple, it was gifted to France and moved to Paris in , and is situated at the Place de la Concorde.
The base and pyramidion are modern additions. III, plate 12 Lebas. The temple was a ruin already in Roman times, and the obelisk is the only clue that a temple once occupied the spot. Topographical Bibliography , IV, p. Inscriptions: Hieroglyphs on 3 sides Description: Found toppled and broken in two in a field near the ruins of Crocodilopolis Faiyum by Napoleon's expedition Can be seen today in the middle of a roundabout in the city of Faiyum, the inscriptions are almost entirely gone.
It is sometimes referred to as a stela as it not the usual shape of an obelisk. XVII, Inscriptions: 1 column on each 4 sides Description: Originally discovered broken at Tanis, it was repaired and erected on top of a pedestal building at Cairo airport in Inscriptions: 1 column on each 4 sides Description: Discovered in bad shape at Tanis, it is now repaired and erected in a small garden on Gezira Island near the Cairo Tower.
Ramesses II had his inscriptions added on either side of the original inscription some years later. It was moved to Alexandria by the Romans in 12 BC, where it toppled sometime during the next centuries and was buried, preserving the hieroglyphs from the effects of weathering.
The English weather hasn't been kind to the hieroglyphs.
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