Editing Obelisk (section)

==== Nubian ====
Ancient [[Nubia|Nubian kings]] of the [[Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt|twenty-fifth Dynasty]] sought to legitimize their rule over Egypt by constructing Egyptianizing monuments in the Middle Nile region. Historical sources mention that king [[Piye]] built at least one obelisk. The obelisk was made of local [[black granite]] and was found at the site of Kadakol. It had been cut down to make it into a column, presumably for one of the early Christian churches in the area of [[Old Dongola]]. Today the obelisk is exhibited in the [[National Museum in Khartoum]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lacovara |first=Petere |title=Pyramids and Obelisks beyond Egypt |journal=Aegyptiaca |date=2018 |issue=2 |page=130 |doi=10.11588/aegyp.2018.2.48018 |url=https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/article/view/48018/41478 |access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref> The obelisk is inscribed with the kings official titulary: ''Strong-bull, Appearing-in-Dominion (Thebes), King-of-Upper-and-Lower-Egypt, Two-ladies, Ruler-of-Egypt, Son-of-Rê, Pi(ankh)y: what he made as his monument for his father Amen-Rê, lord of [...]''.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Tormod  |editor-first1=Eide |title=Fontes historiae Nubiorum: Textual Sources for the History of the Middle Nile region between the eighth century&nbsp;BC and the sixth century&nbsp;AD |year=1996 |volume=1 |issue=54 |publisher=University of Bergen, Dept. of Classics, Bergen, 1994 |isbn=9788291626017 |page=54 }}</ref>

An obelisk of King [[Senkamanisken]] was found at [[Gebel Barkal]] in 1916 by the [[Harvard University]] Museum of Fine Arts expedition to [[Sudan]]. There are remains of another small obelisk inscribed with the [[cartouche]] of King [[Aktisanes]] at the site of Gebel Barkal.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Lacovara |first=Petere |year=2018 |title=Pyramids and obelisks beyond Egypt |journal=Aegyptiaca |issue=2 |pages=131–135 |doi=10.11588/aegyp.2018.2.48018 |url=https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/article/view/48018/41478 |access-date=17 June 2019}}</ref>