# The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks

Author: Moldenke, Charles E., 1860-1935

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/47273

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+New+York+Obelisk%3A+Cleopatra%27s+Needle+With+a+Preliminary+Sketch+of+the+History%2C+Moldenke&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

§1. The present site of obelisks. 1-5. §2. By whom obelisks were erected. 5-7. §3. By whom obelisks were ransported. 7-8. §4. List of obelisks. 8-11. I. Erect Obelisks. 9-10. II. Prostrate Obelisks. 10-11.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V. (Page 35.) Ancient Alexandria reconstructed.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter VIII. Egypt: its geographical divisions and its cities. 84-92](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter III. The form, name, dimensions, invention, material,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter VI. The inscriptions of the New York Obelisk. 46-78](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter I. Obelisks--where found, and when, and by whom](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II. (Page 12.) The goddess Nekheb, the tutelary deity of kings,](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter VII. Notes on the translation and the crabs. 79-83](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter V. The history of the New York Obelisk, and its removal](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter II. The quarrying, transporting, and raising of obelisks. 12-17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I. (Page 1.) The goddess of victory in the form of a vulture](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV. (Page 26.) The symbol of the god Horus of Edfu, represented](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-new-york-obelisk-cleopatra-s-needle-with-a-preliminary-sket-06f99ea4/chapters/10/index.md)