In the following years, the obelisk was visited and described by Edward William Lane (1827),Lane (2000), pp. 230, 237-238. and John Gardner Wilkinson (1827),Zecchi (2008), p. 374.Wilkinson (1843), pp. 34243. and Karl Richard Lepsius ( 184245).Lepsius (1849), plate 119. In 1925, Mohamed E. Chaaban excavated the area around the fallen obelisk and discovered its base. Chaaban also unsuccessfully searched for the figure that may have once rested on the top of the monument.Chaaban (1926), pp. 105–108. In 1972, the obelisk was restored by Egyptian authorities and moved to Medinet el-Fayyum.Leclant (1973), p. 405. However, due to centuries of neglect and exposure to the elements, hardly anything remains of the monument's inscriptions or its registers.Zecchi (2005), p. 380. For this reason, Lepsius's detailed drawings of the monument are considered "of permanent value for its study".
