The New York Obelisk: Cleopatra's Needle / With a Preliminary Sketch of the History, Erection, Uses, and Signification of Obelisks

by Charles E. Moldenke

The three columns above to the right refer to the sun-god Râ seated below, and read:

du	ânkh	ef	neb	Râ-Ḥor-	khuti	neb	taui
Giving ·	life ·	him ·	all ·	Râ-Horus	in the horizon ·	lord (of ·	the) two countries.

du	ânkh	ef	neb	Râ-Ḥor-	khuti
Giving ·	life ·	him ·	all ·	Râ-Horus	in the horizon ·

neb	taui
lord (of ·	the) two countries.

i. e. This is Rā-Hor-khuti, the lord of the two countries [Egypt], who gives him [the king] all life.