Obelisk, a tall four-sided pillar, generally monolithic, tapering to a pyramidal pointed top, erected in connection with temples in Egypt, and inscribed all over with hieroglyphs, and in memorial, as is likely, of some historical personage or event; they are of ancient date.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Obeid * Ober-Ammergau