<p data-block-key="2ybz6">An Egyptian obelisk erected in the *<a href="https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:75216#?c=&m=&s=&cv=109&xywh=-2834%2C-252%2C12328%2C5837">Circus Maximus</a> by Augustus in 10 B.C.; it was dedicated to the sun-god *Sol, the deity to whom the Circus as a whole was consecrated (<a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Tert.+Spect.+8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0571">Tert., <i>De spect.</i> 8</a>; Humphrey 94, 269). The obelisk was brought from Heliopolis and erected at the mid-point between the two <i>metae</i> (<a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/L/Roman/Texts/Isidore/18*.html">Isid., <i>Etym</i>. 18.31</a>; Humphrey 269-72, 291; Polzer); its ‘twin’ stood in the *Campus Martius and served in a monumental sundial (*“Horologium Augusti”). Inscriptions on the base of both monoliths cast them as explicit symbols of Augustus’ conquest of Egypt (<i>CIL</i> VI <a href="https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder.php?s_language=en&bild=$D_00091a.jpg;PH0003303;pp">701</a>-<a href="https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/bilder.php?s_language=en&bild=$CIL_06_00702.jpg;$M_CIL_06_00701.jpg;pp">2</a>; <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0197%3Abook%3D17%3Achapter%3D1">Strabo 17.1.27</a>; <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:phi,0978,001:36:14">Pliny, <i>NH</i> 36.14</a>; <a href="http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Amm.+17.4.12&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0081">Amm. Marc. 17.4.12</a>). The ancient base is <i>c</i>. 3 m square (D’Onofrio fig. 2); these dimensions provide the basis for our reconstruction on the map. In the 16th c. the obelisk was excavated and moved to <a href="https://library.artstor.org/#/asset/25232050;prevRouteTS=1605651164224">Piazza del Popolo</a> where it stands.</p><p data-block-key="72oge"></p><p data-block-key="pn53q"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8855142,12.4853316,3a,75y,66.73h,87.04t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipPVOqhP0sijR9EY6pXAdgU83NdsGW-Pq5e97b4d!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipPVOqhP0sijR9EY6pXAdgU83NdsGW-Pq5e97b4d%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi-0-ya180.29251-ro0-fo100!7i10000!8i5000!5m1!1e4">Click for Full Google Street View</a></p><p data-block-key="b3phv"></p>