Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Hanyar wucewa: "Ginshiƙin Pompey", ginshiƙin nasara na Romawa, yana ɗaya daga cikin sanannun abubuwan tarihi na dā da har ila suke a Alexandria a yau. Tana kan tsohuwar acropolis na Alexandria - tudun mai tawali'u da ke kusa da makabartar Larabawa na birni - kuma asali wani ɓangare ne na ginshiƙan haikalin. Ciki har da gindinsa, yana da tsayin mita 30 (99 ft); shaft din an yi shi ne da jan granite mai gogewa, 2.7 m (8.9 ft) a diamita a tushe, yana raguwa zuwa 2.4 m (7.9 ft) a saman. Shafin yana da tsayin mita 27 kuma an yi shi ne da dutsen dutse guda. Girmansa ya kai cubic mita 132 (cubic feet 4,662) kuma nauyinsa ya kai kimanin tan 396. Wataƙila an gina Ginshiƙin Pompey ne da irin hanyoyin da aka yi amfani da su wajen gina dutse na dā. Romawa suna da jan ƙarfe amma ba su da ƙarfi su ɗaga wani abu mai nauyi kamar haka. Roger Hopkins da Mark Lehrner sun gudanar da gwaje-gwaje da yawa na gina obelisk ciki har da nasarar ƙoƙarin gina obelisk mai nauyin tan 25 a shekarar 1999. Wannan ya biyo bayan gwaje-gwaje guda biyu don gina ƙananan obelisks da kuma ƙoƙari biyu da aka kasa don gina obelisk mai nauyin ton 25. An sace ginin kuma an rushe shi a karni na 4 lokacin da wani bishop ya ba da umarnin cewa dole ne a kawar da Paganism. "Tsarin Pompey" ba daidai ba ne, saboda ba shi da alaƙa da Pompey, an gina shi a cikin 293 don Diocletian, mai yiwuwa don tunawa da tawayen Domitius Domitianus. A karkashin acropolis kanta akwai ragowar karkashin kasa na Serapeum, inda aka aiwatar da asirin allahn Serapis, kuma wanda aka yi imanin cewa bangon bangon da aka sassaka ya samar da sararin ajiya don tsohuwar Laburaren. A cikin 'yan shekarun nan, an gano tsoffin kayan tarihi da yawa daga tekun da ke kewaye da su, galibi tsoffin tukwane.  Tambaya: Tsawon Ginshiƙin Pompey, haɗe da abin da ya tsaya a kai?
yana da mita 30 (99 ft)