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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8241045, member: 110350"][USER=100777]@octavius[/USER] and [USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER], thank you for the proper identification of the obelisk in my photo. I know that my son and I visited St. Peter's and the Vatican Museum, etc. -- my memory isn't quite that bad yet! -- so it makes sense that I would have photographed the obelisk in St. Peter's Square.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=115059]@Dwarf[/USER], no apologies necessary. There are, after all, eight Egyptian obelisks in Rome (see the list at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obelisks_in_Rome" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obelisks_in_Rome" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obelisks_in_Rome</a>), and they do all look pretty much alike except at the base and in the buildings around them.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: I am waiting for Egypt to demand the return of all eight of them as important cultural heritage stolen by rapacious Europeans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 8241045, member: 110350"][USER=100777]@octavius[/USER] and [USER=80147]@Ancient Aussie[/USER], thank you for the proper identification of the obelisk in my photo. I know that my son and I visited St. Peter's and the Vatican Museum, etc. -- my memory isn't quite that bad yet! -- so it makes sense that I would have photographed the obelisk in St. Peter's Square. [USER=115059]@Dwarf[/USER], no apologies necessary. There are, after all, eight Egyptian obelisks in Rome (see the list at [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obelisks_in_Rome[/URL]), and they do all look pretty much alike except at the base and in the buildings around them. PS: I am waiting for Egypt to demand the return of all eight of them as important cultural heritage stolen by rapacious Europeans.[/QUOTE]
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