Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier has managed to identify several elements to change the meaning of an inscription or to reveal new ones. He also spotted an inscription that reads not vertically, as it is customary for hieroglyphs, but horizontally.
Stronging in the middle of the square, the obelisk of the Concorde and the endemic piece of the place. He was erected in the square in 1836, and seemed to monitor athletes and spectators at the top of his 22.86 meters. Aged 3,300 years old, he is offered to France by the viceroy of Egypt, Mehemet Ali.
The largest and most mysterious sundial
It is also known as the largest sundial in the world since its shadow indicates the time in Roman numerals thanks to lines materialized on the ground. The obelisk is covered with hieroglyphs. We can notably talk about the cartridge of Ramses II, which makes an offering to the god Amon-R.
However, hidden messages dedicated to the Egyptian pharaoh have recently been discovered by Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier, officer at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and at the Catholic Institute of Paris and Egyptian calligraphy expert, specifies Le Figaro.
The latter, to take care during the confinement days in 2020, devoted his daily exit time to reading the hieroglyphs present on the facade of the obelisk. In several places, he notes oddities that once had been considered “shells” on the part of the scribe.
A coded message on the obelisk?
Interpoaged by these strange signs, Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier returns to the square for several days with his epigraphist equipment and his binoculars. It is there that he makes an amazing discovery and understands that the obelisk actually has a multiple hieroglyphic cryptography.
This writing was considered to be the language of the gods at the time according to Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier. These are in fact puzzles, rebus scattered within the hieroglyphs. This enigmatic language was reserved for the elites and even today, very few Egyptologists are able to decipher them.
To observe these hieroglyphs as well as possible, Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier had to gain height … and the scaffolding during the renovation of the monument during the Paris Olympic Games fell in time! The specialist notably noticed a detail that would have gone unnoticed to a spectator at the foot of the monument: Ramses II, presented with two crowns symbolizing the upper and the Lower Egypt.
Source: Le Figaro
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