Message #14489

[Catastrophe]

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This:


http://www.touregyptphotos.com/showphoto.php?photo=1267&password=&sort=1&cat=2&page=1

is a pylon. I think you are getting confused with electricity pylonas as being tall and thin.

pylon

1. a tall structure erected as a support (esp. for electric power cables) or boundary or decoration
2. a gateway esp. of an ancient Egyptian temple
3. a structure marking a path for aircraft
4. a structure supporting an aircraft engine

The Concise Oxford Dictionary

Clearly 2 is intended in this context.

Thus obelisks were not hollow although some were erected in segments. However the partly quarried fractured obelisk destroys any nonsense that obelisks were poured.