Obeliscus Aegyptiacus (1666) - Page 17

	Years after the Flood.	Before Christ.
whom Augustus, having brought to Rome, erected in the Circus Maximus; today it is seen erected before the Church of the Blessed Virgin of the People by Sixtus V, Supreme Pontiff. Psammirtao lived.	1587	807
NECTANABIS, the last King of Egypt, erected a very large obelisk at Memphis, which, having been removed from there, King Ptolemy Philadelphus erected at Alexandria in the Temple of Arsinoe, during the same times when Rome was founded, in the year	1654	740
At this time Cambyses, King of the Persians, invading Egypt, overthrew all the obelisks, slaughtered the priests, and abolished Egyptian learning.
AUGUSTUS CAESAR, having driven out the Greeks and occupying Egypt, annexed it to the Roman Empire, and he was the first who, having brought obelisks from Egypt, erected one in the Circus Maximus and another in the Campus Martius, suitable for showing the hours.	2397	After Christ.
C. Caligula re-erected the obelisk once erected by Momphencur in Egypt and brought to Rome in the Vatican Circus, [and] Sixtus V, Supreme Pontiff, [re-erected it] before the Basilica of St. Peter.	2438	41
CLAUDIUS Caesar erected two obelisks, but unadorned, translated from Egypt, before the Mausoleum of Augustus.	2454	57
One of which is seen erected by Sixtus V before the Liberian Church of St. Mary Major; the other lies hidden, still buried in the ruins of the said Mausoleum.
ANTONINUS CARACALLA Caesar erected an obelisk in his Hippodrome on the Via Ardeatina, which Innocent X, Supreme Pontiff, later erected in the Circus Agonalis.	2647	250
CONSTANTINE the Great transported the largest of all the obelisks to Alexandria, so that he might erect it in the new Rome, Constantinople; but, being prevented by death, he was unable to accomplish it.
CONSTANTIUS Caesar, his son, had it transported to Rome and erected [it] in the Circus Maximus.	2746	343
THEODOSIUS the Emperor erected another at Constantinople.	2786	381
SIXTUS V, of glorious memory, moved by a vast greatness of spirit, was the first of the Pontiffs to undertake the erection of the obelisks overthrown by the Goths; [he re-erected the one] in the Vatican Field, [that of] Gaius Caligula, [and] the Ramesseum once erected by Constantine Caesar in the Circus Maximus, in the Lateran Field.	3990 3985	1586 1588
SMARRAEUM [the obelisk] once [erected] by Claudius before the Mausoleum of Augu-