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St. Peter's Square Obelisk
Except this obelisk, all the obelisks in Rome toppled down in the Middle Ages. The Egyptologist Labib Habachi writes a reason in his book; Legend has it that in the Vatican Circus innumerable Christians, including St. Peter, were put to death and that the reason this obelisk was not later overturned...
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Vatican Obelisk
Fontana’s plan for moving the obelisk was chosen from among hundreds of others. It relied heavily on pulleys, some as large as five feet in length, to lift the obelisk off its base and then lower it to a horizontal position by pivoting it on its lower end. Five huge levers, each 51 feet long, were u...
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The Vatican Obelisk@Everything2.com
symbols of might. But perhaps the real reason had more to do with power. The manipulation of the monolith was clearly an expression of dominance on the part of the Vatican, just as it had been for the Roman emperors who had stolen great artifacts from Egypt centuries earlier. The scope of the projec...
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LacusCurtius • The Vatican Obelisk (Platner & Ashby, 1929)
Rawl. D. 1180, p163), 'the great obelisk of which is told this story, that when it was raising, the ropes fell too short, and so great was the fear of falling that silence was commanded on pain of death, but an English sailor present bid them wet the ropes, which then lengthened and the work was fi...
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BibliOdyssey: Transporting the Vatican Obelisk
There's a great story about this obelisk. According to legend, in order to ensure the workers would not be distracted, the Pope ordered that anyone who spoke while the obelisk was being moved would be put to death. As the obelisk was being raised, the friction caused the ropes to begin to smolder, b...
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The Vatican Obelisk photo - H Batrés photos at pbase.com
In 1586, the Italian engineer Domenico Fontana moved an Egyptian obelisk to its present site in front of the Vatican in St. Peter's Square. The obelisk, quarried in Egypt during the 13th century BC, was brought to Rome in the 1st century. It remained in position until Pope Sixtus V, as part of his p...
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Fontana di Trevi
