Built for
the pharaoh Ramses II (1297/1213 BC) at Heliopolis in Egypt in about 1280 BC
It was
taken to Rome in the first century BC to decorate probably the driveway of the Iseo
Campensis, the temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis
It was
found in 1883 in Via Beato Angelico precisely in the area where the Temple of
Isis used to stand
The
monument was designed by Francesco Azzurri
(1831/1901) and it was erected in 1887
It was
located, in the first place, in front of the Termini Train Station
and it was moved in the current location in 1925
It is
dedicated to the 548 Italian soldiers killed in Dogali, Eritrea on
January 26, 1887 after whom the nearby Piazza dei Cinquecento is named
In 1936
after the colonial conquest of Ethiopia a bronze statue of a “Lion of Judah”,
the Ethiopian national symbol, was placed at its base. It was returned after
the war
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