Abishemu obelisk
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The Abishemu obelisk or the Abichemou obelisk is a 1.25 meter limestone obelisk dedicated to the Phoenician king Abishemu I of Byblos. The obelisk is decorated with two lines of inscriptions in Egypti
The obelisk in its current location
The inscription close up
Egyptian obelisks
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Obelisks had a prominent role in the architecture and religion of ancient Egypt.
Abishemu obelisk
…Egyptian hieroglyphics. It was created c. 1800 BCE, and was unearthed in the 1950s by Maurice Dunand in the Temple of the Obelisks. It is the world's third-oldest obelisk, and by far the oldest obelisk found outside Egypt. Although only approximately a dozen words long, the obelisk contains…
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