Egyptian obelisk, Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano, Rome

RIBA Ref No RIBA7939

Architect/Designer	Fontana, Domenico (1543-1607)
Artist/Photographer	Piranesi, Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)
Country	Italy
City	Rome
Subject Date	1759
Image Date	1759
View	Topographical
Medium	Print
Library Reference	SB1001/1(53)
Orientation	Portrait
Colour Info	Black and white
Credit	RIBA Collections
Subject	Obelisks

SOURCE: Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Vedute di Roma (Rome, [1747?-1788]), pl. 53 NOTES: Dating from the 15th century BC, this obelisk had been brought to Rome in 357 to decorate the Circus Maximus. Found in pieces in 1587 it was reconstructed on this site the following year by Domenico Fontana.

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