Carlitos Lunghi Site

KARNAK

                    The queen HATSHEPSUT, 18th dynasty, not much  to  dead  your father
                TUTMOSIS I, and   living  your   son  TUTMOSIS III, she  declared  him
                `KIN´.  She erected four obelisks, just only one up, the tallest of Egypt,  in
                Karnak; of 33 metres and 323 tons.
                In base are 32 horizontal lines of jeroglific, eight por each side,who tell why
                she construct the obelisk.
                The inscription say in part:
                " I´m seating in the  palace and I  remembered  who  create  me, my  heart
                order me that I must construct two obelisk of electrum ( natural mixture  of
                god and silver ), ... the sky enter  in agost in the column  parlor  among  the
                great pilon of [ TUTMOSIS I ] ...My majesty star to work in it, in the year
                15, in the second month  of winter, first day, continue  in it, in year 16, the
                four mounths of summer, 30 day, make 7 mounth to the  cut to it from the
                mountaint."
                In one relief in the Karnak  Red  Chapel, is posible see the queen given two
                obelisk who erected in the  temple, in honor of  god Amon, asociated to the
                solar good RA.


Actuals views to one of the fall HATSHEPSUT´s
obelisk, in Karnak, Thebes, Egypt.

                                                                               Actual view to up part of the obelisk of  HATSHEPSUT,
in where she show tho be able take in that scene in which
Amon named son in the park of the Cairo´s Museum - Cairo, Egypt.

                The obelisk of SESOSTRIS I was  standing in pair among the pilons of the
                enter at the temple, is the  oldest monolito that conserv and was erected by
                SESOSTRIS in  Heliopolis,  center  to  the  solar  doctrine. Was  from  the
                Middle Kingdom and it was in front  of  a Temple  now  desappear, it  was
                made  in  red   granite  and   have  inscription  in  each  four  sides. In   the
                inscription say: "The first occasion of the Jubilee, he made it to give life for
                ever". the jubilee was entertain at the 30 years reign the pharaoh.
                Behing to the third pilon of Karnak there was four obelisk of TUTMOSIS I
                right now, remain one of 20 metres and 143 tons.
                The first mention in the literature about obelisk was in one chapter of Isaiah
                of St. Epheaim, who write that in Heliopolis"was two big columns  of excite
                admiration...In it describe person figures and animals in where be se images
                who contain the mistery to the paganism".
                Yakut, in the  Arab  History  in  13  century,  write  that inhabitant call him
                Messalat Far`un, or "Faraon´s Needle".

                                                       Actuals views of the obelisk of  TUTMOSIS I
   in Karnak, Thebes, Egypt.

                  Among   the  pilons   IV & V of  Karnak, both of  TUTMOSIS I,  preserve
                two obelisk. One is erect, and  the  other fall. The  obelisk  of  SETOS II is
                very reduce in height and size  in compasion  the other. Just star to lose the
                monumental who character that work art.
                RAMSES II was the faraon who made more obelisk, in total 23.

                                                                                            Actuals views of the obelisk of  SETOS II
   in Karnak, Thebes, Egypt.

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The History of the Egyptian Obelisk