Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 498
to the principal deity of the temple, and to other divin-ities. Sometimes also the offering is of the obelisk itself Theshort inscriptions of the pyramidion bear the oval of the kingand the name of the divinity. By these ovals can be knownthe names of the kings who erected the obelisks still… … OBELTSK OF nELiOPOLTS {Ovcr 4000 ycars old).The following is a translation of the hieroglyphic writing which is set Into it:TheHorus; the living from his birth; the king of Upper and Lower Egypt; RaKheper Ka; Lord of the two diadems; Son of the sun; Osirtasen; the loved of theGod of Heliopolis from…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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