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History of Ancient Art

Note C — EGYPT.

Joseph Thacher Clarke translation

The fellow of this monolith, known as Cleopatra’s Needle, until recently stood at Alexandria, whither it had been moved from Heliopolis; but having been presented by the late Khedive to the city of New York, it has been shipped across the Atlantic, and erected in the Central Park of that city.

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