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The word "obelisk" as used in English today is of Greek rather than Egyptian origin because Herodotus, the Greek traveler, was one of the first classical writers to describe the objects. A number of ancient Egyptian obelisks are known to have survived, plus the " unfinished obelisk " found partly hewn from its quarry at Aswan .
The word "obelus" comes from ὀβελός (obelós), the Ancient Greek word for a sharpened stick, spit, or pointed pillar. [1] This is the same root as that of the word 'obelisk'. [2] In mathematics, the first symbol is mainly used in Anglophone countries to represent the mathematical operation of division and is called an obelus. [3]
A dagger, obelisk, or obelus † is a typographical mark that usually indicates a footnote if an asterisk has already been used. [1] The symbol is also used to indicate death (of people) or extinction (of species or languages). [ 2 ]
The obelisk is a determinative in the Egyptian language, and the word t(kh)n has multiple spellings, since obelisk construction was done over various time periods. Some spellings are: [ 1 ] The second spelling uses the shortened variety of the block-of-stone (hieroglyph) ,
Obelisk (biology), a class of viroid-like elements; Obelisk (hieroglyph), an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph; Obelisk (typography) or dagger (†), a typographical symbol; Obelisk posture, a position that some dragonflies and damselflies assume to avoid overheating; Obelisk (Prague Castle), a monolith and World War I monument in Prague, Czech Republic
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The restored pyramidion of the Red Pyramid at Dashur, on display beside the pyramid. A badly damaged white Tura limestone pyramidion, thought to have been made for the Red Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur, has been reconstructed and is on open-air display beside that pyramid; it presents a minor mystery, however, as its angle of inclination is steeper than that of the edifice it was apparently ...
The Deakin Obelisk and the Kimberley Obelisk in Australia are used in a slightly different way, in that a line is run north and south through a point on the obelisks, formed by a copper plug embedded into the top centre of the concrete obelisks. [1]