Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1877 — Obelisks. [ARTICLE]

Obelisks.

Only forty-two obelisks are known to exist. Four are standing and two are prostrate at Karnac ; nine are prostrate at Saan, and one standing at Philae. In Rome there are twelve, the largest one being at the church of St. John Lateran. Florence contains two, and Paris, Arles, and Constantinople each one. In England there are four—two at the British Museum, one at Alnwick Castle, and one at Kingston-Lacy, Dorsetshire, brought over by William Bankes, a friend of Lord Byron.