Obelisco Macuteo

The obelisk in front of the Pantheon

The Obelisco Macuteo

The Obelisco Macuteo or Obelisco del Pantheon is an Egyptian obelisk in Rome on the Piazza della Rotonda in front of the Pantheon on a fountain.

description

It was excavated in 1575 (according to other sources already two centuries earlier) and initially placed in front of the Church of San Macuto , opposite Sant'Ignazio on the Piazza di San Macuto. In 1711 Pope Clement XI let him . set up on a late baroque fountain in front of the Pantheon. In the pyramidion - the top of the obelisk - there are two name cartouches of Ramses II. The 6.34 m high obelisk was also believed to be a work of the Roman period like the obelisk on Piazza Navona. In antiquity, he too stood in Emperor Domitian's sanctuary of Isis, i.e. in the immediate vicinity of the Pantheon.

The obelisk forms a pair with the granite stump Obelisco Matteiano in the Villa Mattei , together they once stood in the sanctuary of Amun-Re in Heliopolis .

See also

• List of obelisks in Rome
• List of ancient monoliths

literature

• Klaus Bartels: Rome's speaking stones. 2nd edition, von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2690-4 .
• Ernst Batta: Obelisks. Egyptian obelisks and their history in Rome. Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1986, ISBN 3-458-32465-8 (Insel-Taschenbuch, 765).
• Richard Hillinger, Christian E. Loeben: Obelisks. Heliopolis, Luxor, Cairo, Byblos, Rome, Benevento, Istanbul, Urbino, Florence, Kingston Lacy, Munich, Paris, Durham, London, New York, Berlin. Exhibition in the Italian hall of the Landshut city residence from May 23 to June 2, 1992. Stadt Landshut, Landshut 1992, ISBN 3-927612-06-5 .
• Reinhard Raffalt : Concerto Romano. Prestel, Munich 1955; 14th edition 1999, ISBN 3-7913-2236-2 .
• Eckart Peterich : Rome. 2nd edition, Prestel, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7913-2043-2 .
• Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby: A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Oxford University Press, London 1929, pp. 366-371 ( online ).
• Cesare D'Onofrio: Gli obelischi di Roma. Rome 1967

Web links

Commons : Obelisco Macuteo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• The Roman Obelisks ( Memento from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Obelisco Macuteo (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ L'Osservatore Romano . No. 25/2010, p. 5.

Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 57.5 "  N , 12 ° 28 ′ 36.3"  E