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Broken Obelisk is a sculpture designed by Barnett Newman between 1963 and 1967. Fabricated from three tons of Cor-Ten steel, which acquires a rust-colored patina, it is the largest and best known of his six sculptures.
The statue was discovered and excavated by Hormuzd Rassam in 1853. It was found close to the Broken Obelisk and "in the same ditch". [1] The statue is on permanent exhibition in the British Museum gallery 55, the Assyrian room, where it is simply labelled as "Limestone statue of a woman" and is dated as within the reign of Ashur-bel-kala.
The Broken Obelisk, [i 2] an unfinished part of a monumental inscription in the British Museum, is usually attributed to him following the arguments made by Weidner, Jaritz and Borger, despite its apparent imitation of the campaigns of Tukultī-apil-Ešarra I and his hunting of a nāḫiru (a “sea-horse”) in the Mediterranean (the “upper sea of the land of Amurru”).
The unfinished obelisk in its quarry at Aswan, 1990. The obelisk and wider quarry were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1979 along with other examples of Upper Egyptian architecture, as part of the "Nubian Monuments from Abu Simbel to Philae" (despite the quarry site being neither Nubian, nor between Abu Simbel and Philae). [2]
Lewis’ statue stands at the former site of an obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908. DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — A crowd was on hand at a city park in Georgia Saturday to ...
The northeast corner of the square features a version of Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk sculpture. Steps to the southeast lead down Rainier Vista to Drumheller Fountain, aligned with Mount Rainier. A 1909 bronze statue of George Washington is below the west entrance, facing west toward The Brothers of the Olympic Mountains.
Aug. 10—The idea of a new home for the Plaza obelisk had seemed too polarizing to explore when it was posed by some of Santa Fe City Councilor Carol Romero-Wirth's constituents more than a year ...
A statue honoring civil rights hero and US Congressman John Lewis was unveiled ... A 30-foot Confederate obelisk erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1908 previously stood in ...