Meanings (ES + gloss)
obelisco
A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
"The clay envelope is Sumerian. It is from the third millennium B.C. It was dug up from the city of Eridu is southern Iraq. The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, whi…
The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a "true obelisk," even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a singl…