https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaminio_Obelisk

The Nineteenth Dynasty pharaoh Seti I quarried this obelisk from granite quarries in Aswan. Before his death, artists inscribed three of the four faces of the obelisk, which Seti intended to erect in the Temple of Re in Heliopolis.^[1] Seti’s son and successor Ramesses II completed its inscriptions and set it up in Heliopolis.

It was brought to Rome in 1 BC by command of Augustus, together with the Obelisk of Montecitorio, and placed on the spina of the Circus Maximus, followed three centuries later by the Lateran Obelisk. Like most Egyptian obelisks, the Flaminio Obelisk was probably one of a pair, but no trace of its companion has been found. In Seti I’s dedicatory inscription on one side of the shaft, the king boasts that he would “fill Heliopolis with obelisks.”

In Seti I’s dedicatory inscription on one side of the shaft, the king boasts that he would “fill Heliopolis with obelisks.”