, 1881-03-06


Tho King o1 Upper and Lower Egypt,
The Chosen One Of the Sun.
The Golden Horus
Rich IN Years: Grand in Victories.
The Son OF the Sun: Ramessu Nerf-amun,
He came out from the Belly,
To receive the Crowns from tho Sun Gos. Ra,
Who created him to he the Sole Monarch.
The Lord OF the Two Worlds: Ra-user-na,
The Cht,sen One Of tho SIN.
The Son Of the Sun: Ramessu Meri~amun..
|. Tho ltctiectcd Splendor OF
The Gud rutn
Like tho Sun.
Tho text and inscriptions of the pyramid
ion are illegible.
TEXT OF THE CENTRE LINE.
[Name Of the Rnyal Standard
Horus: tho Strong Bull.
Friend Of tnc Sun God ta.
[The OTctal TH1e]
The tn, King Of Upper and lower Egypt,
-kheper - -
TEXT or THE R1GIr-uASD LINE.
Horus: the Strong Bull,
The Companion u1d Friend Of Justice.
The King OF Upper and Lower Egypt:
Lord Of tho Periods Of Thirty Years,
Like his Father. the God Ptah:
Lord oi the White Wall [namo OF the Citadel
The Son 1t the Sun: namessn Merl- amun
The God: the Divine i1cng.
The Terrestrial Star OF tho City Of tho Sun
Which is sustained by tho deeds Of
The Lori of tlle Two Worlds: Ka-user-ma,
The Son NJ tho Sun: Humessu Merl-amun,
Who gives Life.
THE 1EF7-HASn LINE.
3
On the pyram1tlion the representation
and the text inscribed upon the pylon are the
same as Those III FACE 4. The inscfips'ons
engraved over the Slx and the figure Of the
god are not distinct.
TEXT OF THE CENTRE LINE.
(yanle of the RnH1l Standard
Horas: the Stroug bull.
Who manifested hinsck as King in the Tho
bald.
The King Of Upper and Lower Egypt.
Ku-ne1l-khcpcr,
Who causc1
Great Itcjn!cing
1T the House Of the Sun God Ra-lThat is
HeIiopoIis.]
Who created
The Beauty of the Sun Disk;
The LAY when for the first time was made -
TEXT OF THE R1GHT-uASD LINE.
Horus: the Strong Bull.
The Son OF the Sun God Ia.
The kin&of Upper and Lower Egypt
ltI-i>Scr-tnA.
Tho Chosen One of the Sun.
The Guden itor1s;
Rich in Years: Grand IN Victories.
The Son OF tho Sun: Ramessu Mer-anun. -
The Lord of tho Two Worlds
Ra-user-s,t
Tho Chosen One ot tho Sun.
The SON Ut the Sun [Ramessu Merl-amunl
Like the Sun.
TEXT OF THE IEFT-uASD LINE.
Iorns: the Strong Bull,
Friend OF Justice.
The King OF Upper and Lower Egypt
The Son Of the sun
The CrcAture Of the Gods.
Who [hns ta1cu possession Of the Two Worlds,
The son OF tho sum Ra-,,ser-1n:t Meri-umun;
The Friend OF the C:ty vi the Sun:
Never before WIS done what he did for the
Ills Memory is forever fixed in the City of Tu1n
[rItum1.
The Lord Of the Two Worlds: 1.a-user-ma.
The Chosen One Of the Suu.
The Son Of the sun lKaInessu Meri-amun1
VINO gives Life.
At the fopt Of the four faces of the obe-
lisk there is Il horizontal line uf text, which
reads:
"May Tic Live!-Tte Gracious God: Ra-
uscr-nlA--Thc Chusen One Of the SuE-The
Gracious God: R:lu1eSsu Aleri-atnun-
TIE yALCE OF THIS olEL1sK
in The history Of the world may be briefly
stated This monument, by its Inscriptions
and the names Of the kings which it bears,
marks three distinct cpucis in history.
nrder the Great Of the Egyptians, tlfe great
conu,,cror, had extended the boundaries OF
Egypt in the south as far as Central Africa.
>:.llu i'll the north as far rs the Euphrates
River. lie had also brought under his scep-
trc Arabia, rs far as the Indian Ocean, and
the Lyblar races who dwell upon tile shores
Of tile Mediterranean. Never had Egypt
been grander or mort: powerful thar during
the reign OF this PhAraoli. The name Of
Rauses II. {abo,t $500 B, c. marks the
t,,.r1t nj c1 1ati
prcponderance and the commencement Of
her decline, Egypt had ceased to conquer.
She merely defended herself. The mention
Of Us0rkon l. (ahout !fses B. C.,) recalls to
our minds Egypt subtiued and subjected to
princes Of a dynasty: the foreign origin of
which is clearly. Indicated by their names
Thus E>orkon, for Instance, represents the
Egyptian form uf the Assyrian Name Sargoll.
From this period the decline of the ancient
Egyptian Empire draws to an end. Soon
Kingdoms governed by petty native kin=lets,
hut subjected to tue supremacy ct Ethiopian,
Lihynn, Or Persian .llunarchs. The conquest
ol Egypt by Alexander the Great nlnl the
fouiAin, Of the new residence at Alexandria
gave birth to
NEW PERIOD AND y NEW FOR31
Of the Egyptian Empire. Greek civilization
fourislled among the ruins of the E=ynt Of
antiquity whose monuments served to :ltlorn
the City OF Alexandria. The New York obe-
lisk: together with its London brother, set
out for the new city, where these two ven
erable monuments were the silent witnesses
Of the entry into Egypt of the legions of
Rome. They beilcld the coming Of T., the fleet
III the Caesars, the nassacres Of the Chris
tians, the arrival of the army OF the arabic
conQuerur A1nrlI, the reign OF the Name
lnkes, and the famous campaign Of the great
Napoleon.
Tired and dislleartened, as it would seem.
by such yicissit1ties in the destiny Of their
native land. they have at lenstll turned their
backs upon the valley OF the Nile. Once sep
ncatcd from each other by the width Of a
simple gateway through which visitors en-
tered the Sun Temple at On. they today find
themselves respectively in tile largest city Of
the New and of the OLD World. Now no lo,l-
ger Il doorway. bur all immense ocean SEP
arates them. Not inaptfy does this ocean
indicate the distance between tile civilization
Of the time when they were lnattr-nearly
thlrty-liya centuries ag0-a1ld the civilization
of our age.