SPHINX

Copied from one of the hieroglyphic symbols on the top of the obelisk of the sun which lay broken into five pieces in a Cortile in the Campo Marzio whence it is removed to be restored and erected at Monte Citorio upon the spot where stood the pedestal on which the apotheosis of Antoninus is represented in bas-relief. This pedestal is now placed in the centre of the Cortile in the Museum at the Vatican. The above obelisk was found near where it lay under the foundations of several houses behind the sacristy of St. Lorenzo in Lucina.