Les inscriptions de l'obélisque de Domitien (piazza Navona). État de la question

Abstract

The obelisk located today in the center of Piazza Navona is the only architectural vestige inscribed with Domitian’s name to have escaped damnatio memoriae. Understood sometimes as a demonstration of the extent of the Isiac cult under the Flavians, sometimes as an object of propaganda for the advent of Domitian, the obelisk was erected in an archaeological context which remains unknown, even if some have proposed the Iseum Campense. This study returns to the hieroglyphic inscriptions of the obelisk, in order to update that proposed by Erman and Grenier, with a view to presenting the historical interpretation that can be given.