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What is a pyramidion?

What is a pyramidion? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk or pyramid.
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In the plate attached to his essay, Hittorf gives us a plan and elevation of the pyramidion of the smaller obelisk of Luxor.
Flowers of the temple of the pyramidion were brought to him and blossoms were given to him.
The short inscriptions of the pyramidion bear the oval of the king and the name of the divinity.
This finished, sloping masses were erected against it so as to form, with the pyramidion of the first mass, a second pyramid.
They're halfway through an intensive May tour, promoting next Monday's release of their Pyramidion live disc.
According to beliefs, the pyramidion on its apex represents the benben stone, an ancient object that was thought to receive the first rays of the rising sun.

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