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After the entrance gate of Great Temple of Amun, there is a Sety II Obelisk (#1) on the right hand side. It’s a squab obelisk, because of the thick and low shape. But most tourists don’t pay attention to this, and go forward to the inside, because the Sphinx Avenue [Avenue of Ram-headed Sphinxes] leads, and the First Pylon stands towering at front.

The First Pylon is the western entrance of the Great Temple of Amun. This is supposed to be built in the era of Nectanebo I (4th century BC, 30th Dynasty), but this is unfinished, and the heights of left and right are different, and neither inscription nor relief were made.

1.  Sety II Obelisk
This obelisk is standing soon after entrance gate of Great Temple of Amun. Here is a place where was once a quay of canal from Nile.
This was erected by Sety II (The 19th Dynasty, reigned 1200-1194 BC). Only one of the right side (the south side) facing the front of the Temple of Amun is standing and the other has only the rock of the pedestal left (Figure 3). It was 3.3 meters high with my actual measurement. The shaft is thick and the inscriptions of four lines are engraved on each side including horus name and coronation name of Sety II. Because it is made of red sandstone, preservation state is not good, the evidences that the defective part was repaired is conspicuous.

2.  Thutmose I Obelisk
笘・his is the obelisk erected by Thutmose I (The 18th Dynasty, reigned 1504-1492 BC). Although this was erected as a pair as usual, between the 3rd and 4th pylons, but only the right side (south side) remains. Since the east and west sides of the obelisk have only a narrow space, and the obstacle at the base, it’s difficult to look the front side of the obelisk. But, the whole shape of the south and north sides can be seen well. Particularly the inscription on the south side remains well.
When Thutmose I erected this obelisk, the inscription was only the center one line, but two lines were added both right and left sides in the era of Ramses IV (The 20th Dynasty, reigned 1153-1147 BC). So currently, the inscription is in three lines.

The hieroglyph of the central inscription is a enchanting and beautiful typeface that has a neat formal beauty. In terms of the beauty, it’s as beautiful as to contest of top or the second with the Senusret I Obelisk in Heliopolis, I think.
This obelisk leans a little, about 1 degree toward the west. If you look at Figures 15 and 17, you can see it’s leaning. Also the obelisk in Figure 16 (east side) can be seen as thick. This is because I took a picture a little obliquely from the aisle side to avoid obstacle at the base.