Talk:Obelisks in Rome
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[edit] Why?
It is a nice article, and informative... on what, and where, and when, and to a degree, who.
Which leaves why.
Why did they do it? Worth a line or two. Midgley 17:00, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Images
There are some nice images in the german article de:Obelisken in Rom. It would be nice to get them into Commons - how do we do that? -- ALoan (Talk) 14:10, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Aurelian"
Several of these obelisks are designated as "Aurelian copies", with links going to the Emperor Aurelian. Is this correct, or does "Aurelian" in this case mean the family of Marcus Aurelius, who reigned a century earlier? --Jfruh 15:08, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Pero Tafur and the Vatican Obelisk
I have a reference that quotes the Castilian traveler Pero Tafur (around 1440) talking about, besides Saint Peter of Rome, a "high tower made of stone, sort of a three-sided diamond on three brass pedestals (carnicoles)" (my translation). Many would pass between the ground and the base of the "tower" and Tafur considered it the tomb of Julius Caesar. The 1874 edition quotes Gaetano Moroni's Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica saying that the Vatican obelisk rested on four cubes of bronze, two free and two joined with pernos. So how was the Vatican obelisk before the pope set to re-erect it? --Error 02:51, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
- I found more on Saint Peter's Square. --Error 02:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
