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a single stone middle finger to gravity, carved when pharaohs felt extra.
means A tall, four-sided stone pillar that narrows toward the top and ends in a small pyramid-shaped point, often raised as a monument.
from From Greek 'obeliskos,' a diminutive of 'obelos' meaning 'spit' or 'pointed pillar' — so to Greek eyes, these towering Egyptian shafts looked like little cooking skewers, a 'small spit' of stone. The word came into English through Latin 'obeliscus.' The same 'obelos' lurks behind the typographic dagger mark (†), once used to skewer doubtful passages of text.
- single stone
- carved from one granite block, no seams
- sunbeam frozen
- meant to mimic a ray of the sun god
- global theft
- Rome looted more Egyptian obelisks than Egypt kept
- weight class
- some top 300 tons of solid rock
- DC giant
- Washington Monument is a 555-foot tribute obelisk
washington monument — 555-foot granite obelisk in washington dc, completed 1884
luxor obelisk in paris — 75-foot ancient egyptian obelisk from luxor, gifted to france, placed in place de la concorde 1836