An obelisk is a tall, four-sided monument.
Obelisk may also refer to:
Geography[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- The Obelisk, a predecessor of the alternative band The Cure
- "Obelisk", a song by the metalcore band Northlane from the album Node
Other uses[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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