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Hatshepsut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Only one side of the obelisk was inscribed, and the names of Hatshepsut have been erased, as happened to many of her monuments. Obelisks are solar symbols and sacred to gods associated with the sun (for example, Re).
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The obelisk of Hatshepsut, built in the year 1457 BC, during the XVIII dynasty, is the second biggest of all the ancient Egyptian obelisks. Made of one single piece of pink granite, it has a height of 28.58 metres and its weight is 343 tons.
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The obelisk is made of red granite, is 96 feet (29.56 meters) high and weighs 323 tons (323000 Kg). Its inscriptions honor Horus, Ra, Amun and her father Tutmosis I and also describe the obelisk: “Worked with fine gold illuminating the two lands like the sun. Never was the like made since the primitive times of...
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Hatshepsut or Hatshepsut-Khnemit-Amen (foremost of the holy ones who is united with Amen) is probably most famous today for having being a woman than for any other reason. Her living Horus name was Userkau (mighty kas) and her ... The following is a translation of the hieroglyphs engraved on this magnificent obelisk.
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creatress of [many] forms like Khepera, diademed with diadems like the God of the Two Horizons (i.e. HerAakhuti), the holy egg, the glorious offspring, the suckling of the two goddesses of ... Each obelisk is made from a single block (i.e. is a monolith) of granite in the quarry, without cleavage, without division.
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