Carlitos Lunghi Site

                About the obelisk of the Temple  of  the  Sun  in  Karnak, of RAMSES II,
                exist another think about that the obelisk was erected  by  SETI I, this two
                diferent thinks was, because  SETI I was  the  pharaoh  who  erected  and
                decorated three sides, left to his  son RAMSES II  to  decorate  the  fourth
                side,who also added two columns of text to each of the other sides already
                decorated by his father.
                Was transported  to  Rome, and placed in year 10 B.C. in the center of the
                Maximus Circus, there was the  called  spina  or barried, to  commemorate
                the conquest of Egypt by August.
                Was founded by Albert of Canaldoli fragmented in the ruins of the circus.
                Under Pope Gregory XIII, sections  of  the base were also uncovered, but
                it was only in 1589, Pope  Sixto V  ordered  its restoration, since  this  one
                was in three parts, to Domenico Fontana, the  following  year  was erected
                in the exact point  where was  the bronze  statue of Marco Aurelio, in front
                of Santa Maria del Popolo.
                It was the first obelisk that saw the travelling ones that they come from the
                north by the Via Flaminia and is which is known it like obelisk Flaminio.
                The obelisk is of red granite, 235 tons, is 23.30 meters with the base 32,77
                meters  and  is the  second impotant of the existing obelisks  in Rome. The
                jeroglifics  show to  the names of  pharaoh RAMSES II and   his Mineptah
                son.
                In  the  begining of  19 century  Jose Valadier design the fountain was in its
                foot and the square like cant it see in this days.

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