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Reginald Engelbach. The Aswân Obelisk
The Aswân Obelisk
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. DESCRIPTION OF THE OBELISK
CHAPTER II. THE TRENCH
CHAPTER III. THE UPPER QUARRY-FACE
CHAPTER IV. EXTRACTION OF OBELISK FROM QUARRY
CHAPTER V. TRANSPORT OF OBELISKS
CHAPTER VI. ERECTION OF OBELISKS
CHAPTER VII. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS AND CONCLUSION
CHAPTER VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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Reginald Engelbach
With some remarks on the Ancient Engineering
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It might well be asked: Why was the work continued so long after such bad fissures had been discovered? The answer may be that none of these fissures appeared to be serious, even a short distance above the present level of the face of the obelisk. The north and south trenches do not give evidence that the granite was in a bad state, except at ab, l, o and p.
It is likely that the black line π, drawn across the base of the obelisk to shorten it by over 2 metres, was made by the original workers; this is indicated by the fact that, below this line, the hammer-dressing has been left in a rougher state than that on the remainder of the face of the obelisk; further, the trench, which was intended to separate the base of the obelisk, was abandoned earlier than those on the north and south sides, probably as soon as the fissures shewed themselves to be deep.
