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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).

Last modified Aug 04, 2021 04:10 PM — History

tags: obelisk, UWHS

Although never completed, the 'unfinished obelisk' at Aswan in Egypt is the largest known ancient obelisk.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506010320

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
24.0769233565, 32.8954414981

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of unfinished obelisk (1548 BC - 1086 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Unfinished obelisk makes connections with:

Unfinished obelisk located at Aswan Quarry Landscape (unspecified date range)

Unfinished obelisk receives connections from:

None

Place type:
monument

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Related:

Wikidata Q65827938: Stone quarries and obelisk

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Unfinished obelisk: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506010320> [accessed: 25 January 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/506010320 |title=Places: 506010320 (Unfinished obelisk) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=January 25, 2025 12:15 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Unfinished obelisk