Obelisco di Dogali

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The Obelisco di Dogali in the park on Viale delle Terme di Diocleziano

The Obelisco di Dogali is an Egyptian obelisk in Rome .

history

With a height of 6.34 meters, it is the last obelisk to be rediscovered and re-erected in Rome. It originally stood like the obelisks in Piazza Navona, Piazza della Minerva and in front of the Pantheon in the area of Iseum Campense , where it was found by the Italian archaeologist Rodolfo Lanciani on June 20, 1883 near today's church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva . Four years later, on June 5, 1887, it was erected on the forecourt of the Roman main train station, the Stazione Termini , to commemorate the Italians who died in the Battle of Dogali . In Dogali in January 1887 had Negus Johannes IV. In Ethiopia defeated invading Italians. The names of the 548 fallen were listed in the base and the square was named Piazza del Cinquecento ( Square of the Five Hundred ). In 1925, the obelisk was moved to Viale delle Terme di Diocleziano as part of the redesign of the station forecourt. In 1937 Mussolini had a bronze representation of the Lion of Judah attached to the base. This was removed after the Allied invasion at the end of the Second World War.

The obelisk originally comes from the solar sanctuary in Heliopolis , where it was erected by Ramses II . A twin obelisk is now in the Boboli Gardens in Florence . A copy of the twin is still in Rome, namely in the garden of the Villa Medici .

See also

literature

  • 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.
  • Erik Iversen: Obelisks in exile. Vol. 1: The obelisks of Rome. Gad, Copenhagen 1968.
  • Ernst Batta: Obelisks. Egyptian obelisks and their history in Rome. Insel, Frankfurt a. M. 1986, ISBN 3-458-32465-8 ( Insel-Taschenbuch , 765).
  • Lawrence Richardson Jr .: A New Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1992, ISBN 0-8018-4300-6 , p. 274.
  • Klaus Bartels: Rome's speaking stones. 2nd edition, Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2690-4 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 41 ° 54 ′ 7.7 ″  N , 12 ° 29 ′ 50.9 ″  E