Obelisk

Obelisk (dariYunani ὀβελίσκος - obeliskos,^[1] bentuk kecil dari ὀβελός - obelos, "paku, tiang runcing"^[2]) adalah monumen tinggi, ramping bersisi empat yang dimahkotai kemuncak berbentuk piramida. Obelisk purbakala biasanya terbuat dari monolit atau batu tunggal, sedangkan obelisk modern dibangun dari batu dan memiliki ruangan di dalamnya.

Referensi

^ Obeliskos, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus
^ Obelos, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus

Bacaan lebih lanjut

Curran, Brian A., Anthony Grafton, Pamela O. Long, and Benjamin Weiss. Obelisk: A History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-262-51270-1.
Wirsching, Armin. Obelisken transportieren und aufrichten in Aegypten und in Rom. Norderstedt: Books on Demand 2007 (2nd ed. 2010), ISBN 978-3-8334-8513-8

Pranala luar

Obelisk of the World (Shoji Okamoto)
History of the Egyptian obelisks
Obelisks in Rome (Andrea Pollett)
Obelisks of Rome (series of articles in Platner's Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome)
History of the obelisk of Arles (in French)
Octavo Edition of Domenico Fontana's book depicting how he erected the Vatican obelisk in 1586.
National Geographic: "Researchers Lift Obelisk With Kite to Test Theory on Ancient Pyramids"

[1] Obeliskos, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus

[2] Obelos, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, "A Greek-English Lexicon", at Perseus

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