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Vatican Obelisk

www.obelisks.org/en/vaticano.htm

 

The Obelisk was quarried in Aswan in the era of Amenemhet II (Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, 20th century BC), and erected at the Temple of Sun in Heliopolis.

 

Obelisk was brought to Alexandria and erected at the Julian Forum in Alexandria by Gaius Cornelius Gallus

 

Taken by Roman Emperor Caligula in AD 37, for Rome, and erected it as a spina of the Caligula Circus, later the Nero Circus (Circus Gai et Neronis, or the Vatican Circus).

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_obelisk

 

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