With his nose glued to the wall of the obelisk, and perched 20 meters above the Place de la Concorde, Vincent Rondot reads a cartouche of hieroglyphics that he knows by heart - unlike the small troop around him.
“Here, we see Ramses II kneeling in the process of offering two vases of wine to the god Amon-Re,
explains the director of the department of Egyptian antiquities at the Louvre,
and the god says to him:“ I give you perfect health.
I give you perfect life, stability and happiness. ””
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After having taken narrow scaffolding stairs, he deciphers other inscriptions and other cartridges, shows the fantastic animals.
From bottom to top, more than forty inscriptions celebrating Ramses II decorate the obelisk, a detail that had not escaped Jean-François Champollion, to whom we owe the precise choice of the monument.
There is the one depicting a cobra, the pharaoh with a scepter, rays, birds.
It is about a
"Sun abundant with truth"
,
"of Horus-Sun, bull ...
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