Vatican 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).
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History
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obelisk
An obelisk from Heliopolis in Egypt that the emperor Caius erected in the Circus Gaii et Neronis. It now stands in St. Peter's square in Vatican City, having been re-erected there by Domenico Fontana in 1586.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/855632226
41.9022319397, 12.457253726
- Relocated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Vatican Obelisk (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Obeliscus Vaticanus (Latin, unspecified date range)
- Vatican Obelisk (English, unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Vatican Obelisk: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/855632226> [accessed: 24 December 2024]
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