ID: 700008906 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008906	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Esquiline Obelisk (obelisk (monumental pillar); unknown Italian (architect); found 1527, erected 1587; Rome (Roma, Lazio, Italia, Europe, World, Top of the TGN hie...)

Note: Ancient obelisk in the Piazza dell' Esquilino, Rome. Formerly installed at the entrance of the Mausoleum of Augustus. Placed at its current location by Domenico Fontana in 1587, under Sixtus V.

Titles:

Esquiline Obelisk (preferred,C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Esqualine Obelisk (C,U,undetermined,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

obelisk (monumental pillar) [300007021] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, monuments, <monuments by form>, monumental pillars)

Classifications:

antiques (preferred)

Creation Date: found 1527, erected 1587

Creator Display:

unknown Italian (architect) [preferred]

architect unknown Italian (Italian cultural designation) [500125250]

Locations:

Current: Roma [7000874] Roma province (province), Lazio (region (administrative division)), Italy (nation), Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: unavailable

Dimensions: 50 feet

General Subject:

architecture (preferred)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: monuments and monumental structures

Sources and Contributors:
Esquiline Obelisk	........ [VP]
	........ Gilbert, Rome (2014) 86
Esqualine Obelisk	........ [VP]
	........ Brier, Cleopatra's Needles: the Lost Obelisks of Egypt (2016) 42

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Gilbert, Rome (2014)