- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Standing Obelisks and their Present Locations
- Chronologies
- Introduction: The History of Pharaonic Egypt
-
Chapter 1 The Cult of the Sun Stone -
Chapter 2 Created from Stone -
Chapter 3 Contact with the West -
Chapter 4 Roman Annexation of Egypt -
Chapter 5 Egyptian Influences in Rome -
Chapter 6 Augustus and the First Egyptian Obelisks to Reach Rome -
Chapter 7 Other Augustan Obelisks -
Chapter 8 Augustus' Successors -
Chapter 9 Claudius and Nero -
Chapter 10 The Flavian Emperors and the Obelisks of Domitian -
Chapter 11 The Emperor Hadrian -
Chapter 12 Constantine and the New Rome -
Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople -
Chapter 14 An Egyptian Obelisk in France -
Chapter 15 Obelisks in Britain -
Chapter 16 From the Old World to the New an Obelisk in New York -
Chapter 17 The Obelisk Builders and the Standing Obelisks of Egypt - Conclusions
- Appendix: Translations of two Obelisk inscriptions
- Bibliography
- Index
Constantine and the New Rome
Constantine and the New Rome
- Chapter:
- (p.101) Chapter 12 Constantine and the New Rome
- Source:
- The Emperors' Needles
- Author(s):
Susan Sorek
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter discusses the following: the obelisk that now stands in the Piazza di San Giovanni — the largest surviving obelisk in the world, with a height of 32 metres (83 ft) and weighs 455 tonnes; Constantine I 's removal of another obelisk from Egypt and set up in Arles (France); and Constantius II as the last Roman emperor to bring an obelisk to Rome.
Keywords: Piazza di San Giovanni, obelisks, Arles, Constantine I, Constantius II
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- Title Pages
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Standing Obelisks and their Present Locations
- Chronologies
- Introduction: The History of Pharaonic Egypt
-
Chapter 1 The Cult of the Sun Stone -
Chapter 2 Created from Stone -
Chapter 3 Contact with the West -
Chapter 4 Roman Annexation of Egypt -
Chapter 5 Egyptian Influences in Rome -
Chapter 6 Augustus and the First Egyptian Obelisks to Reach Rome -
Chapter 7 Other Augustan Obelisks -
Chapter 8 Augustus' Successors -
Chapter 9 Claudius and Nero -
Chapter 10 The Flavian Emperors and the Obelisks of Domitian -
Chapter 11 The Emperor Hadrian -
Chapter 12 Constantine and the New Rome -
Chapter 13 From Rome to Constantinople -
Chapter 14 An Egyptian Obelisk in France -
Chapter 15 Obelisks in Britain -
Chapter 16 From the Old World to the New an Obelisk in New York -
Chapter 17 The Obelisk Builders and the Standing Obelisks of Egypt - Conclusions
- Appendix: Translations of two Obelisk inscriptions
- Bibliography
- Index
