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English: Black siltstone obelisk of King Nectanebo II of Egypt, Thirtieth dynasty, about 350 BC.
According to the vertical inscriptions Nectanebo set up this obelisk at the doorway of the sanctuary of Thoth, the Thrice-Great, Lord of Hermopolis. Nowadays the obelisk is placed in the British Museum, London. Hieroglyphs: to "set-up" the obelisk, the Mast-hieroglyph is found on left-face, at mid-point. (The Mast..or.."aha", in "S-aha", is the verb, to erect. (s-combinations, are often verbs)). (The Mast, 'aha' is an adjective or verb, "to-stand-up", erect, erected.) Near the bottom of the same column, can be found hieroglyphs: Reed, (flowering), the Black-(soil)-(Kem)-(crocodile skin(?) hieroglyph, and adjacent to it: the Bone-with-meat hieroglyph. |
Date | 28 May 2005 (according to Exif data) |
Source | Own work |
Author | Jan Kameníček |
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Camera manufacturer | KONICA MINOLTA |
Camera model | DiMAGE Z5 |
Exposure time | 1/40 sec (0.025) |
F-number | f/4.5 |
ISO speed rating | 125 |
Date and time of data generation | 10:09, 28 May 2005 |
Lens focal length | 5.859375 mm |
Orientation | Normal |
Horizontal resolution | 72 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 72 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Macintosh |
File change date and time | 14:03, 6 May 2022 |
Exposure Program | Aperture priority |
Exif version | 2.2 |
Date and time of digitizing | 10:09, 28 May 2005 |
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APEX brightness | 4.1 |
APEX exposure bias | 0.3 |
Maximum land aperture | 3 APEX (f/2.83) |
Metering mode | Pattern |
Light source | Unknown |
Flash | Flash did not fire, compulsory flash suppression |
Supported Flashpix version | 1 |
Color space | sRGB |
Date metadata was last modified | 16:03, 6 May 2022 |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:0180117407206811B840856FC582E018 |
IIM version | 2 |