_i. e._ _Barbarus, governor of Egypt, erected_ this obelisk _in the eighteenth year of_ the reign of _the emperor_ Augustus (12 B. C.). _Pontius was the architect._ The Greek letter _Psi_ ([Greek: Ps]) in the first line of the Latin text seems to have been the initial of the engraver's name, who must have been a Greek, if we can draw this inference from the beautiful Greek and the poor Latin form of the letters in the inscriptions. THE FULL TRANSLATION OF THE OBELISK. As a recapitulation of the translation of the Egyptian inscriptions on our obelisk, which has been given in the preceding pages, we now place the complete translation of each face of the obelisk in a very compact and simple form before our readers. The English translation will be found to correspond to the hieroglyphs, and each word can be easily picked out on the three columns of the original. All the words in _Italics_ are to be found in the Egyptian text, while those in common Roman types are supplied so as to render the inscriptions intelligible to the reader. _Thothmes III., gracious _Râ-Hor-Khuti, the {75} god, lord of great god, the lord the two countries, of the two countries, giving eternal life._ giving him all life._ _The powerful and _Wine: glorious bull in as a Thebes, the Sun's gift._ offspring, Thothmes III._ Behold Pharaoh! He Behold Pharaoh! He Behold Pharaoh! He is _the heavenly is _the heavenly is _the heavenly Horus, the powerful Horus, the powerful_ Horus, the powerful bull, the son of and _glorious bull bull, beloved of Khepera._ in Thebes._ Râ._ ---------------- ---------------- ---------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | He is _the king of He is _the lord of the He is _the King of Upper and Lower Vulture_ and _Uræus diadems_, Upper and Lower Egypt, Ramses II., and his _kingdom is estab- Egypt, Ramses II., the golden Horus, lished_ as firmly _as the the Sun_ himself, who abounds in sun in the heavens._ His and _the child of years_ and _is great name is: "_He whom Tum, the the gods._ He is in victories._ He is lord of Heliopolis, has be- _master of the two _the Sun's offspring, gotten_ and who is _the son countries, the Sun's Ramses II., who of his loins, whom Thoth has offspring, Ramses issued from the_ brought forth_", who _was II._ He is _a youth Sun's _loins to created by them in the great glorious_ and _be- receive the diadems temple_ of Heliopolis _in loved like Aten, of Râ._ It is he the beauty of their limbs_, when he shines in