Vatican Obelisk

monument · 1900 BC

An obelisk from Heliopolis in Egypt that the emperor Caius erected in the Circus Gaii et Neronis. It now stands in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, having been re-erected there by Domenico Fontana in 1586.

Coordinates

41.90223, 12.45725

Also known as

Obeliscus Vaticanus (la), Obeliscus Vaticanus (la)

Dating

year

Sources

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

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