Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — The Obelisk of Orsotasen. [ARTICLE]

The Obelisk of Orsotasen.

The Obelisk of Orsotasen, one of the earliest and finest of the Egyptian obelisks, is still standing at Heliopolis. It is inscribed with the name of Orsotasen, one of the greatest rulers of the twelfth dynasty. It is sixty-seven feet four inches in height, without the pyramidion which erbwns it, and is a splendid block of granite, weighing 217 tons. It must have required immense skill tb quarry it, to transport it from Syene, and finally, after finishing it, to erect it where it now stands and has stood for 4500 years.—[Boston Cultivator.