| Qlûapedra·t |
| "Cleopatra". |
Cleopatra VI. The famous and infamous queen after whom the New York Obelisk is named, though incorrectly. She was born B. C. 69, married her brother Ptolemy XIV. in 52, combined with Julius Cæsar in 49, and dethroned her brother who was soon after that drowned. In 47 she married her second brother Ptolemy XV. whom she poisoned in 44. She then made her own son by Julius Cæsar, Ptolemy XVI. Cæsarion, co-regent with herself, but, falling in love with Mark Antony, killed her son and placed her lover on the throne in 37. At the very height of her power she was vanquished by Octavius, who became afterwards the emperor Augustus, and died with Mark Antony in 30 B. C. Her Egyptian name is [39] [40]
| ḥeq·t | neb taui | Qlûpeter |
| The mistress, | lord of the two countries, | "Cleopatra". |
"Cleopatra's Needle." The usual designation of the New York Obelisk. [8] [10] [41] [42] [81]
Colossus. A Greek word Κολοσσός, "a gigantic statue". [15] Colossi of thebes. The two colossal statues of Amenophis III., one of them being the Vocal Memnon. Besides them there are at Thebes several others, notably of Ramses II. (Luxor and Karnak) and of Ramses III. (Medînet-Habu). Other colossal figures of Ramses II. are found at Mitrahîneh [Memphis] and, wrought into the rock, at Abusimbel. [16] [89]
Constantine the Great. The first Roman emperor of that name and the introducer of Christianity into the whole empire. He was sole ruler of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires from 323 to 337 A. D. [8] [10] [22]
Constantinople. The capital of the Turkish Empire, founded by Constantine the Great 330 A. D. on the site of the ancient Byzantium. It is called in Turkish Istambûl استانبول. [8]
Constantius II. A son of Constantine the Great who was sole ruler of the Roman Empire from 351 to 361 A. D. [8]
Coptic Language. The name given to the Egyptian language [Coptic being an abbreviation for Egyptic] in use at the time of the Romans and spoken until the seventeenth century of our era. There were three dialects, the Sahidic (of Upper Egypt) and the Memphitic and Bashmuric (of Lower Egypt). The language was almost exclusively used by the Christian Copts. The alphabet is the Greek with some changes in the form of the letters and six additions from the Hieroglyphic. This is the alphabet: [90]
| Coptic: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Greek: | α | β | γ | δ | ε | ζ | η | θ | ι | κ | λ | μ | ν | ξ | ο | π | ρ | ς | τ | υ | φ | χ | ψ | ω |
| a | b | g | d | e | z | ê | th | i | k | l | m | n | x | o | p | r | s | t | u | ph | kh | ps | ô |