Dikilitaş

Dikilitaş

Also known as Obelisk of Theodosius

Photo: Lambert de Vos · Public domain

Year

390

Type

public art

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Carved from a single shaft of red Aswan granite for the pharaoh Thutmose III around 1450 BC, this obelisk was shipped to Constantinople and raised on the spina of the Hippodrome in 390 under the emperor Theodosius I. Only the upper portion …

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