Unfinished obelisk
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 04, 2021 04:10 PM
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History
Although never completed, the 'unfinished obelisk' at Aswan in Egypt is the largest known ancient obelisk.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506010320
24.0769233565, 32.8954414981
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of unfinished obelisk (1548 BC - 1086 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Unfinished obelisk located at Aswan Quarry Landscape (unspecified date range)
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monument
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Unfinished obelisk: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506010320> [accessed: 21 February 2025]
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