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Obelisk

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A named tapering Egyptian stone shaft, often paired at temple gates. Not a menhir, not a benben, and not a pyramidion dump.

Also known as Egyptian obelisk · Tekhenu

Egyptian religion

  • Obelisk appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus describes Egyptian obelisks, the tapering stone shafts of temple approaches, in his Egyptian logos. A named Egyptian shaft in that inquiry, not a menhir and not Benben.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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