The obelisk is decorated with two lines of inscriptions in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

It was created c. 1800 BCE, and was unearthed in the 1950s by Maurice Dunand in the Temple of the Obelisks.

[4] It consists of a square plinth at the bottom, a tapering shaft and with a pyramidion at the top.

[4] Transcribed:[4] mry Ḥr-š·f ḥꜣty-ʻ n Kpny ʼb-šmw wḥm ʻnḫ

[...]f Kwkwn śꜣ Rwqq mꜣʻ ḫrwTranslated:[4] Beloved of Arsaphes [also translated Herishef], Abishemu, prince of Byblos, renewed in life, his..., Kukun, son of 'the Lycian' justified (i. e., deceased).