Obelisk (disambiguation)

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An obelisk is a tall, four-sided monument.

Obelisk may also refer to:

Geography

• Obelisk Beach, a beach in New South Wales, Australia
• Obelisk Col, a mountain pass on James Ross Island in Antarctica
• Obelisk Mountain
  , a mountain in Antarctica
• Obelisk Hill, a former name of Monument Hill, the site of the Fremantle War Memorial
• Obelisk Islet, an island in the Torres Strait in Queensland, Australia

Fiction

• Obelisk, a fictional weapon in the game Command & Conquer
• Obelisk the Tormentor, a Yu-Gi-Oh! God card
• "The Obelisk", a minicomic in the Masters of the Universe comic line

Music

• The Obelisk, a predecessor of the alternative band The Cure
• "Obelisk", a song by the metalcore band Northlane from the album Node

Other uses

• Obelisk (biology), a class of viroid-like elements
• Obelisk (hieroglyph), an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph
• Obelisk (Prague Castle), a monolith and World War I monument in Prague, Czech Republic
• Obelisk (Sanssouci), a structure at the eastern entrance to Sanssouci Park in Potsdam, Germany
• Obelisk (typography)
  or dagger (†), a typographical symbol
• Obelisk posture, a position that some dragonflies and damselflies assume to avoid overheating
• Obelisk Press, a Paris publisher
• Obelisk ship, a type of ship historically used to transport obelisks
• The Obelisk, a painting by Hubert Robert (1733-1808)

See also

• Monolith, a large block of stone with ceremonial purposes
• Obelism, the practice of annotating manuscripts with marks set in the margins.
  • Dagger (mark) (†), a type of obelism, is called an obelisk in older texts
  • Obelus, a type of obelism; the name of the symbol (÷) in older texts
• Obelix, a character in the Asterix comic strips
• Stele, a stone or wooden slab erected as a marker

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