Besides the three columns of hieroglyphs on each face of our obelisk, all chiseled in large and bold characters, we find at the lower end of each face near each edge inscriptions by a later king. The hieroglyphs of these inscriptions are so minute and so mutilated as to be scarcely legible. They seem to have started at the first of the lower cartouches and to have extended to the two {72}horizontal lines at the bottom of the obelisk. As each face has two of these columns, there are eight of these inscriptions on the obelisk. The last half of the inscriptions is destroyed in each case and may have been different on every column. The eastern column on the south face is the most legible one and presumably reads thus suten-kaut? kherp-kheper-Râ-sotep-en-Râ sa Râ The king of Upper Osarkon I. · the son of Râ · and Lower Egypt · Amen-mer-Ûsarken .......... Osarkon I. · .........._illegible!_.......... _i. e._ _The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Osarkon I., the Sun's offspring, Osarkon I._, .......... _IV. Inscriptions of Augustus._ There is no name of any other Egyptian ruler, except the three mentioned above, inscribed on our obelisk. When the emperor Augustus, however, had the London and New York Obelisks transported to Alexandria in 12 B. C., he caused his name to be engraved on the crabs which supported them. Only two of these crabs have come down to us and are preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park. On the only remaining claw of one of the crabs are two inscriptions; on the one side in Greek and on the other in Latin, which give the names of the emperor, prefect or governor, and architect. Prof. Augustus Merriam of Columbia College has devoted some time to the study of these inscriptions and has made some very remarkable discoveries, which fix {73}the eighteenth year of the reign of Augustus as the time of the reërection of the London and New York Obelisks in Alexandria. The inscriptions are herewith given in fac-simile. The Greek inscription reads [Illustration] which looks like this in regular Greek types: L [Greek: IÊ KAISAROS] In the year · 18 · of Cæsar [Greek: BARBAROS ANETHÊKE] Barbarus · erected (it). [Greek: ARCHITEKTONOUNTOS] The architect being [Greek: PONTIOU] Pontius. _i. e._ The governor _Barbarus erected_ this obelisk _in the eighteenth year of_ the reign of _the emperor_ Augustus (12 B. C.). _Pontius was the architect._ The Latin inscription reads [Illustration] {74}which is in regular Latin types: ANNO XVIII CÆSARIS In the year · 18 · of Cæsar BARBARVS PRÆF Barbarus · the prefect ÆGYPTI POSVIT of Egypt · erected (it). ARCHITECTANTE PONTIO The architect being · Pontius.