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Location: Piazza della Minerva, Rome, Italy
Height: 5.47 meters Weight: unknown Red granite
The obelisk of the Piazza della Minerva was originally erected by the pharaoh Apries of
the twenty-sixth dynasty in the 6th century B.C. in Sais.
It was removed to the Temple of Iseum in Rome but the date is unknown.
In 1665, Dominican friars discovered the obelisk.
In 1667, Pope Alexander VII reerected it in front of the church of Santa Maria sopra
Minerva. Since then, it has been placed on a statue of an elephant made of marble
stone. On the base, carved Latin inscriptions refers to the following injunction (I
would like to introduce an English translation.):
"It requires a STRONG mind to hold knowledge; remember the saying about the memory of
an elephant. "
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