Obelisk Agonale is one of the thirteen obelisks Egyptians of Roma .
It is part of the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona .
It has a height of 16.53 m, and the fountain, the basement, and the dove on top exceeds 30 m.
It was built at the time of the emperor Domitian imitating the Egyptian model and copying hieroglyphics and initially placed in his villa at Albano ; in 311 Maxentius had him move in the circus of the same name villa on the Via Appia Antica .
In 1651 Pope Innocent X made him recover, broken into four pieces, and the architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini raised him to the Piazza Navona fountain in its center. The banker Giovanni Torlonia , who had held the area of the Villa of Maxentius, he found the fragments that he decided to donate to Louis I of Bavaria.
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