The four upright faces are generally decorated with only vertical lines of inscription in praise of the king (Note 11).

Such is the usual type of obelisk; but we here and there meet with exceptions.

That of Begig in the Fayum (fig.

109) is in shape a rectangular oblong, with a blunt top.

A groove upon it shows that it was surmounted by some emblem in metal, perhaps a hawk, like the obelisk represented on a funerary stela in the Gizeh Museum.