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Обелискът на Теодосий
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The obelisk was first built by the Egyptian pharaoh III. It was built by Thutmose in the 15th century BC and was erected south of the seventh pylon of the temple of Karnak. Roman emperor II. Constantius had the obelisk brought to the city of Alexandria over the Nile in 357 AD in honor of the 20th anniversary of his accession to the throne. Later, in 390 AD, Emperor Theodosius I had the obelisk brought to Istanbul by ship and had it erected in its current location in the Hippodrome.[1] The obelisk was made of red Aswan granite and was originally 30 m high. However, its height today is 18.45 m (24.87 m with its pedestal), since its lower part was destroyed either during transportation or when it was placed in its present location. Its weight is approximately 200 tons. Lady Montagu, owner of THE LETTERS OF THE ORGANIZED, wrote in one of the letters dated 1718: This stone stands on four pillars on a chipped stone foot in the form of a murabba. On both feet of the stone there is a picture of a battle and a parliament as reliefs.
The obelisk was first built by the Egyptian pharaoh III. It was built by Thutmose in the 15th century BC and was erected south of the seventh pylon of the temple of Karnak. Roman emperor II. Constantius had the obelisk brought to the city of Alexandria over the Nile in 357 AD in honor of the 20th an…
The Obelisk of Theodosius (Dikilitaş) is the Ancient Egyptian obelisk of Pharaoh Tutmoses III, re-erected at Sultanahmet Meydanı, by Theodosius I in the 4th century.
The obelisk was first set up by Thutmose III (1479–1425 BC) to the south of the seventh pylon of the great temple of Karnak. The Roman emperor Constantius II (337-361 AD) had it and another obelisk
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