Obelisk of Senusret I (Abgig Obelisk)

The obelisk of Senusret I

The Obelisk of Senusret I, or the Abgig Obelisk, is about 13 ms high red-granite obelisk, Originally, it was erected in a village named Abgig few km/mis far from the Faiyum City. Later, it was repaired and re-erected at Medinet El faiyum's northern entrance. Though its decoration and lettering are much worn down and hard to make out . it was still standing at its original site close Abgig, when Richard Pococke called the faiyum in the 1740, but sixty  years late a French artist, Jomard, reading memorial for the description de l'Egypte, found it lying on the ground ,cultivated two, and thus it continued until the 1970s when the great stone, weighing altogether 100 tons,was transported,reconstructed and erected on its nowadays site by the local section of Antiquities. It was put up by Senusert the First or the Man of The Goddess Wosret Also knew as  Sesostris  Which is Greek name. His toilet name is Kheper-Ka-Re Which Means The soul of Ra comes into Being.

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