Once, to be sure (as was recorded on an
obelisk, three feet high, erected on the place of the catastrophe), Antaeus sat down upon about five thousand Pygmies, who were assembled at a military review.
If I express myself strongly it is all because I love you so much; and from that point of view I may say I should as soon have thought of making up to that piece of pale high-mightiness as I should have thought of making up to the
Obelisk in the Place des la Concorde."
She strode like a grenadier, was strong and upright like an
obelisk, had a beautiful face, a candid brow, pure eyes, and not a thought of her own in her head.
The approach to this portico, from the Nile, was through an avenue two miles long, composed of sphynxes, statues, and obelisks, twenty, sixty, and a hundred feet in height.
They could not be compared, of course, with the vast, level, direct, iron-grooved causeways upon which the Egyptians conveyed entire temples and solid obelisks of a hundred and fifty feet in altitude.
I then mentioned our steel; but the foreigner elevated his nose, and asked me if our steel could have executed the sharp carved work seen on the obelisks, and which was wrought altogether by edge-tools of copper.
People coolly pretend to read it who would think themselves presumptuous if they pretended to interpret the hieroglyphics on the
obelisks of Luxor--yet they are fully as competent to do the one thing as the other.
No doubt, when one contemplates these two Bibles, laid so broadly open in the centuries, it is permissible to regret the visible majesty of the writing of granite, those gigantic alphabets formulated in colonnades, in pylons, in
obelisks, those sorts of human mountains which cover the world and the past, from the pyramid to the bell tower, from Cheops to Strasburg.
Try to decide between him who scribbles jokes on Egyptian
obelisks, and him who has "bostoned" for twenty years with Du Bousquier, Monsieur de Valois, Mademoiselle Cormon, the judge of the court, the king's attorney, the Abbe de Sponde, Madame Granson, and tutti quanti.
She repressed her impulse to speak aloud, and rose and wandered about rather aimlessly among the statues until she found herself in another gallery devoted to engraved
obelisks and winged Assyrian bulls, and her emotion took another turn.
Helena, however, I ascertained that some pinnacles, of a nearly similar figure and constitution, had been formed by the injection of melted rock into yielding strata, which thus had formed the moulds for these gigantic
obelisks. The whole island is covered with wood; but from the dryness of the climate there is no appearance of luxuriance.
(10) Respectively in the British Museum, in the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, and at Kingston Lacey, Dorset, the so-called 'Philae'
obelisk. See Budge 1926: 231-43; 273.
The
obelisk's unveiling took place in October 1936, which was chosen to commemorate the 15th anniversary of what Mussolini chose to call his March on Rome, ie, his seizure of power in Italy.
September 5, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) -- Thousands of Ethiopians on Thursday cheered the long-awaited restoration of the 1,700-year-old Axum
obelisk to its original site in the country's north.
The project includes an
obelisk with a sports marina and shopping center, plus regeneration of the surrounding areas.
