Ancient art and its remains, or, A manual of the archaeology of art / By C.O. Müller.

  • Karl Otfried Müller
Date:
1852
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    A^t» (ioiat'Kivg, ov Af/.fiuu (piKtl \^ F»f/,t(rTyis]' o 'TUfitpeyyvis avyKQivccs uiuvtov /3*(ri7^ix .... [irixos Se^Tsgof.] Wanting. [St/^o? TgiTo?.] Wanting. The dedicatory inscription of an obelisk which Sesonchosis consecrated . to Serapis is more briefly quoted by Jul. Valerius De r. g. Alex, i, 31. Comp. besides Zoega De Ob. p. 593, Heeren Ideen ii, 2. s. 415. Cham- pollion, Precis, p. 146 sqq. 5. Many of the obelisks at Rome were executed later and in a rude and counterfeit style, such as the Panfili, the Barberini, and the Sallus- tian according to Zoega. Among the old and genuine Egyptian obelisks the following are of especial importance: a. That dedicated by Thutmosis, brought from Thebes to Alex- andria, and taken to Rome by Constantius II. and erected in the Circus, the largest of all there (formerly 148, now 144 palmi), erected in front of the Lateran by Fontana in 1587 under Sixtus V. Engraved in Kir- cher. b. The one erected at Heliopolis by Semenpserteus (according to Pliny, but here we must assume that this one is confounded with the next), that is, Psammetichus, whose name we can still read upon it; raised by Augustus in the Campus as a gnomon, 72 or 76 feet high ac- cording to the ancients, 94J palmi according to modern authorities, again erected by Pius VI. on Monte Citorio. (This one has only 2, not 3 columns.) Engraved in Zoega. Bandini, Comm. De obelisco Augusti. 1750. fo. c. That dedicated by Sesostris or Ramesses the Great (on the sup- position of a confounding) at Heliopolis, erected by Augustus in the Circus, and by Fontana in 1589 at the Porta del Popolo (hence the Flaminian), according to the ancients 85, 87 or 88 feet, now 107 (formerly 110) palmi. In Kircher. According to Ammian this could only be the one explained by Hermapion; and accordingly Ramesses' name is always correctly found in the first and third column; but in the second invariably an- other, Manduei according to Champollion, who on this account maintains that there is a complete difference between the two. (May not this cartouche be merely the designation of Heliopolis 1) d. The obelisk at Constantinople §. 193, 4, the erection of which is represented on its base. e. f. The two finest in Egypt were the Thebaic obelisks at Luxor, 110 palmi high, the hieroglyphics of which are arranged in the same manner as in Hermapion. Descr. iii. pi. 2. Minutoli, Tf. 16—19. One of them has lately been brought to Paris. Others at Thebes, also at Heliopolis. Obelisk at Luxor, Annali d. I. v. p. 299. g. That at Alexandria, the so-called needle of Cleopatra.—The an- cients speak of still larger ones than those extant; Diodorus mentions one of Sesostris 120 Egyptian cubits in height.