...very boldly relieved, which, together with the hollow space running up the centre, and the patera at top, give a lightness and elegance to the whole form...Several -other obelisks lie broken on the ground, at no great-distance, -one of which is of still larger dimensions. With respect to the antiquity- of these...

...boldly relieved, which, together •with the hollow space running up the centre, and the patera at top, give a lightness and elegance to the whole form that is probably mirivalled. Several other obelisks lie broken on the ground, at no great distance, one of which is...

...very boldly relieved, which, together with the hollow space running up the centre and the patera at top, give a lightness and elegance to the whole form...distance, one of which is of still larger dimensions. With respect to the antiquity of these monuments, I cannot speak with any degree of certainty : but...

...plain obelisk, a larger one, 60 feet high, made of a single block of granite. " * All * Salt, p. 404. its ornaments," says Mr. Salt, " are very boldly relieved,...plan of Axum (Lord Valentia's Travels, vol. iii. p. 82) we see, on the south side of the town, one plain obelisk standing, and fourteen more near it, marked...

...plain obelisk, a larger one, 60 feet high, made of a single block of granite. " * AH * Salt, p. 404. its ornaments," says Mr. Salt, " are very boldly relieved,...plan of Axum (Lord Valentia's Travels, vol. iii. p. 82) we see, on the south side of the town, one plain obelisk standing, and fourteen more near it, marked...

...plain obelisk, a larger one, 60 feet high, made of a single block of granite. " * All * Salt, p. 404. its ornaments," says Mr. Salt, " are very boldly relieved,...plan of Axum (Lord Valentia's Travels, vol. iii. p. 82) we see, on the south side of the town, one plain obelisk standing, and fourteen more near it, marked...

...to be imitated by his new-acquired subjects, the Ethiopians, to whom it bad hitherto been unknown." Several other obelisks lie broken on the ground at...distance, one of which is of still larger dimensions. The era of their erection, it is probable, could not have been prior to the reign of the Ptolemies,...

...very boldly relieved, which, together with the hollow space running up the centre and the patera at top, give a lightness and elegance to the whole form that is probably unrivalled . . . The order of the architecture is strictly Grecian and was, therefore, not likely to have been...