File:Kircher Obeliscus Pamphilius page 444.jpg

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English: Page 444 of Obeliscus Pamphilius (1650) by Athanasius Kircher. The illustration on the right depicts the upper section of the southern face of the Agonale Obelisk, also known as the Pamphilian Obelisk, in Rome. The left column is Kircher's fanciful translation, in Latin, of each figure. Kircher was unable to distinguish between illustrations, as on the pyramidion, and hieroglyphic text, and he thus attempted to translate both. The headings for the two columns on the page were reversed by a printing error. (Source: Daniel Stolzenberg, Egyptian Oedipus, pp. 200–203.)
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Author Athanasius Kircher

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