Oboliscum in circo positum est: monumentos tebanos en Roma y Constantinopla (s. IV). Memoria, expolio y religión.
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Archaeology, egyptians obelisks, Roman circuses, polytheism, imperial Roman ideologyAbstract
Some of the larger obelisks erected in the Pharaonic Egypt were removed and re-used by the Roman emperors. The paper focuses on two of these monoliths, named both Lateran and Teodosian, monuments which were transferred to Rome and Constantinople by Christian emperors in the fourth century. These splendid obelisks present more problems than these of many others, and the author hopes the readers will gain a clearer understanding of the nature of these. The paper analyzes the problematic aspects of their very long histories, and also their religious, ornamental and ideological re-using. The differences with respect to their oldest functions in Egypt are somewhat.
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