OBELISK. 
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side, his majesty is pourtrayed receiving presents from some of 
the neighbouring states. On the third he is standing up be¬ 
tween two persons, and holds in his hands the victor’s wreaths. 
Attendants are ranged behind him ; others also in a line beneath. 
This side is far the best executed. Below the bas-relief is an 
inscription; three lines only are now visible, the rest being 
buried in the earth; but Mr. Cartwright, (who possesses many 
beautiful specimens of Grecian antiquity, medals, &c.) was so 
obliging as to favour me with a full copy of this. 
DIFFICILIS QVONDAM . DOMINIS . PARERE . SVPERBIS. 
IVSSVS . ET . EXTINCTIS . PALMANI. PORTARE . TYRANNIS. 
OMNIA . THEODOSIO . CEDVNT . SOBOLIQVE . PERENNI. 
TERDENIS . SIC . VICTIS . EGO . DOMITVSQVE . DIEBVS. 
IVDICI. SVB . PROCLO . SVPERAS . ELAT VS . AD . AVR AS. 
On the corresponding tablet belonging to the bas-relief is the 
following in Greek, also partly obscured by the accumulated 
ground below. 
KIONA TETPAITAErPON . AEI. K0ONI. KEIMENON AX0OC . 
MOTNOC . ANACTH2AI 0ETAOCIOC BACIAETC . 
TOAMHCAC IIPOKLOG EITEKEKAETO KAI TOCOC ECH . 
KII2N HEAIOIC EN TPIAKONTA ATO. 
On the lower compartments on the other two sides, instead of 
of inscriptions, are additional bas-reliefs; and on that towards 
the west, we find a representation of the games, of the obelisk, 
and the goal. On the eastern side, the lower part of whicli is 
totally buried up by the earth, Sir Robert Liston told me might 
be seen a commemoration of the machinery by which the Egyp¬ 
tian relic had been raised. 
About forty feet from the obelisk, stands the famous brazen 
column of twisted serpents. At present not a head nor a neck 
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