Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 9: Luxor Obelisk [in Paris]

Preferred Title:	Luxor Obelisk [in Paris]
Alternate Title:	Obélisque de Louxor
Image View:	Detail, pedestal decorated with diagrams showing the engineering required to move and raise the obelisk in Paris
Creator:	unknown (Egyptian (ancient))
Location:	site: Paris, Île-de-France, France
Location Note:	Place de la Concorde
GPS:	+48.865556+2.321111
Date:	ca. 1279-1213 BCE (creation); reinstalled 1836 (alteration)
Cultural Context:	Egyptian (ancient)
Style Period:	Egyptian (ancient); New Kingdom (Egyptian); Nineteenth Dynasty
Work Type 1:	obelisk (monumental pillar)
Classification:	architecture
Material:	red granite; gold cap and inlay on base
Technique:	carving (processes); construction (assembling)
Measurements:	75 ft (height, with base)
Relation Work:	part of Place de la Concorde
Subjects:	architecture; engineering and industrial design; manufacturing; military or war; rulers and leaders; writing systems; Egypt--Civilization; Ramses II, King of Egypt; epigraphy; hieroglyphics
Description:	The Luxor Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk now standing at the center of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. It was originally one of two obelisks located at the entrance to the Luxor Temple, in Egypt; the other obelisk is still in place there. They have hieroglyphics exalting the reign of the pharaoh Ramses II. The obelisk arrived in Paris on December 21, 1833, a gift from Muhammad Ali Pasha, the W?li and self-proclaimed Khedive of Egypt . Three years later, on October 25, 1836, King Louis-Philippe of France had it placed in the center of Place de la Concorde. Missing its original pyramidion (believed stolen in the 6th century BCE), the government of France added a gold-leafed pyramid cap to the top of the obelisk in 1998. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
Collection:	Archivision Addition Module Six
Identifier:	1A2-F-P-PCO-A11
Rights:	© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.