This one was set up here in 390 A.D. on a pedestal, the faces of which are carved with statues of the emperor and his family watching games in the Hippodrome, done so realistically that the obelisk itself is included in them.

Giovanni Bernini's `` Fountain of the Rivers '', in the center of the piazza, is built around a Roman obelisk from the Circus of Maxentius which rests on grottoes and rocks, with four huge figures, one at each corner, denoting four great rivers from different continents -- the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile, and the Plate.

Champollion, in 1822, saw copies of the brief hieroglyphic and Greek inscriptions of the Philae obelisk, on which William John Bankes had tentatively noted the names " Ptolemaios " and " Kleopatra " in both languages.

To the inscriptions of the Xanthian Obelisk were added those of the Letoon trilingual, which gave a sequel, as it were, to the names on the obelisk.

The term " obelisk " derives from Greek ( obeliskos ), which means " little obelus "; from ( obelos ) meaning " roasting spit ".

The four sides of the obelisk are covered with reliefs and with hieroglyphs which, it cannot be doubted, Hadrian composed.

Directly to the south of the churchyard stands a 12. 80 metre tall granite obelisk, which was erected in 1861 as a memorial to the Quaker philanthropist and abolitionist, Samuel Gurney ( 1766 to 1856 ).

An obelisk ( from Greek ὀβελίσκος-obeliskos, diminutive of ὀβελός-obelos, " spit, nail, pointed pillar ") is a tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monument which ends in a pyramid-like shape at the top, and is said to resemble a petrified ray of the sun-disk.

It is home to one of the world's largest apple sculptures, which is displayed on top of an obelisk shaped monument.

Today a lead Sphinx designed by the celebrated sculptor John Cheere is positioned on a plinth in this room, together with one of the famous Arundel marbles which originally was inset into the base of an obelisk within the gardens and dates from the 3rd century BC.

Vanbrugh had wanted an obelisk to mark the site of the former royal manor, and the trysts of Henry II which had taken place there, causing the 1st Duchess to remark, " If there were obelisks to bee made of all what our Kings have done of that sort, the countrey would bee stuffed with very odd things " ( sic ).

Designed by Robert Smirke, there are four bronze plaques cast from cannons captured at the Battle of Waterloo — three of which have pictorial representations of Wellington's career while the fourth has an inscription at the base of the obelisk.

Drosnin attempted to find this obelisk, which he believes is buried near the Dead Sea.

The 57ft high obelisk is made of solid Galway granite and was paid for through public subscription and unveiled in 1911 at the junction with Parnell Street, just south of Parnell Square for which Dublin Corporation re-routed the tram tracks to facilitate the siting of the monument.

It now stands in the upper hall of the Mansion of Bahji. In August 1971 the Universal House of Justice erected an obelisk on the site, on the side of which is the Greatest Name.

The Prince Regent used the route when travelling between Windsor and Brighton, the distances to which are given on the plaque on the obelisk.

Indeed, reliefs of Porphyrius, the famous Byzantine charioteer, show him in a victor's pose being acclaimed by partisans, which is clearly modeled on the images on the base of Emperor Theodosius's obelisk.

Among the many landmarks in Barquisimeto is an obelisk ( El Obelisco ) which was raised to commemorate Barquisimeto's 400th anniversary of foundation ; and the cathedral, which is of an oddly-shaped design, very rare in Latin America, because it consists of a cross-like tinted glass dome.

Despite a 1947 United Nations agreement that the obelisk would be shipped back, Italy balked, resulting in a long-standing diplomatic dispute with the Ethiopian government, which views the obelisk as a symbol of national identity.

This was erected over Latreille's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery, and comprised a obelisk with various inscriptions, including one to the beetle which had saved Latreille's life: "" (" Necrobia ruficollis, Latreille's saviour ").

This consists of a central porphyry stele or obelisk with the words " Die toten mahnen uns " ( The dead remind us ) surrounded by a semi-circular wall into which are set gravestones and urns.

Most notable is the large obelisk which he brought back and which now stands prominently in the grounds of the house.

Apries ' obelisk in Rome is known as the ' Pulcino della Minerva '

He built a large racetrack known as the circus of Gaius and Nero and had an Egyptian obelisk ( now known as the Vatican Obelisk ) transported by sea and erected in the middle of Rome.

In 1987, close to the palace, an obelisk was erected, in remembrance of King William II.

A mid-18th century etching of the Palazzo del Quirinale by Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The colossal Roman " Horse Tamers " or Dioscuri are in the foreground, but the obelisk from the Mausoleum of Augustus ( erected 1781-1786 ) has not yet been set up between them.

In 1901 a monument, in the form of an obelisk, was erected by public subscription, at his grave.

A commemorative obelisk that the Maryland Bicentennial Commission and the State Commission on Afro American History and Culture erected in 1977 stands near his unmarked grave in an Oella, Maryland, churchyard.

He also designed the obelisk in Ripon market place, erected in 1702, at 80 feet in height it was the first large scale obelisk to be erected in Britain.

A granite obelisk at Pole Hill was erected in 1824 under the direction of the Astronomer Royal, the Rev.

It was placed on high ground along the line of the Greenwich Meridian, but when this was recalibrated later in the 19th century, the obelisk was deemed to have been erected west of the revised meridian line.

A stone and brick obelisk was erected on Putney Heath in 1770, marking the 110th anniversary of the Great Fire of London, to coincide with the invention of the Hartley fire plates by David Hartley ( the Younger ), near a spot where his fireproof house was built.

A stone obelisk monument was erected there in 1844 by Sir John Franklin in tribute to Flinders ' achievements.

Marble gravestones were placed over each grave and a large marble obelisk was erected to honor the dead.

A second obelisk was erected at the centre of another patte d ' oie or ' Goose Foot ' beyond the cascade to west of the Villa.

Although more widely known for his activities outside of Ripon, John Aislabie, during his time as Member of Parliament for Ripon, created the Studley Royal Park with its water garden and erected the obelisk ( designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor ).

* Waterloo Monument: A stone obelisk erected in 1818 by " the ladies of Great Torrington " to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo.

An obelisk erected in 1950 in the grounds of Leinster House commemorates Griffith, as well as Michael Collins and Kevin O ' Higgins.

The first civic monument to be erected in Nelson's honour was a 44-metre high obelisk on Glasgow Green in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1806.

He was buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery, where a gray granite obelisk was erected to mark his grave.

The cemetery also contains a sandstone obelisk erected in 1944 by the Rangers League of NSW, in memory of Tommy and three other Aborigines buried there-Mogo, William Perry and Wandelina Cabrorigirel, although their graves are no longer identifiable.

In 1727, Sir James Thornhill erected an obelisk in the park to honour the accession of King George II.

It is the burial place of the author G. K. Chesterton, Edmund Burke and the poet Edmund Waller, for whom a tall stone obelisk was erected over the tomb chest in St Mary and All Saints churchyard.