Lateran Obelisk

monument · 1500 AD – 2100 AD

The Lateran Obelisk is a monumental Egyptian obelisk, completed during the reign of Thutmose IV (ca. 1400 BCE) and looted from Karnak in the early fourth century CE.

Coordinates

41.88684, 12.50480

Also known as

Lateranischer Obelisk (de), Obelisc de Laterà (ca), Obelisco de Letrán (es), Obeliscus Constantii (la), Obelisk Lateran (id), Obélisque du Latran (fr), Οβελίσκος του Λατερανού (el), Լաթերանյան կոթող (hy), אובליסק הלטראנו (he), مسلة لاتيران (ar), 라테라노 오벨리스크 (ko)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• OpenHistoricalMap · CC0 1.0
  © OpenHistoricalMap contributors
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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