Obélisque noir

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III - black limestone Assyrian sculpture with inscriptions. Article “Obélisque noir” in French Wikipedia has 19.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 4 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Obélisque noir”, its content was written by 40 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 425 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 88 times in French Wikipedia and cited 763 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #14809 in December 2023
• Global: #39802 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #177554 in April 2017
• Global: #190061 in March 2015

There are 26 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 黑色方尖碑		50.3624
2	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		48.9679
3	Persian (fa) ابلیسک سیاه		39.2701
4	Polish (pl) Czarny obelisk Salmanasara III		34.5853
5	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		29.0026
6	Russian (ru) Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III		27.7593
7	Slovenian (sl) Črni obelisk		26.3298
8	Hungarian (hu) III. Sulmánu-asarídu Fekete obeliszkje		25.9964
9	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		25.7251
10	Japanese (ja) 黒色オベリスク		25.687

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Obélisque noir" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		508 329
2	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		81 337
3	Russian (ru) Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III		52 887
4	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		44 996
5	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		44 200
6	French (fr) Obélisque noir		29 642
7	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		28 752
8	Polish (pl) Czarny obelisk Salmanasara III		23 219
9	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		21 811
10	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		18 357

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Obélisque noir" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		2 564
2	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		208
3	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		196
4	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		132
5	Russian (ru) Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III		123
6	French (fr) Obélisque noir		108
7	Chinese (zh) 黑色方尖碑		100
8	Japanese (ja) 黒色オベリスク		95
9	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		91
10	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		88

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Obélisque noir" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		100
2	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		46
3	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		42
4	French (fr) Obélisque noir		40
5	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		39
6	Russian (ru) Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III		31
7	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		15
8	Turkish (tr) Kara Dikilitaş		13
9	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		11
10	Japanese (ja) 黒色オベリスク		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Obélisque noir" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Urdu (ur) سیاہ ستون یادگار		4
2	Basque (eu) Obelisko beltza		1
3	Chinese (zh) 黑色方尖碑		1
4	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		0
5	Catalan (ca) Obelisc negre		0
6	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		0
7	Greek (el) Μελανός Οβελίσκος του Σαλμανεσέρ Γ'		0
8	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		0
9	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		0
10	Persian (fa) ابلیسک سیاه		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Obélisque noir" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		336
2	French (fr) Obélisque noir		88
3	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		64
4	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		47
5	Chinese (zh) 黑色方尖碑		47
6	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		28
7	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		19
8	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		19
9	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		17
10	Indonesian (id) Prasasti Obelisk Hitam		12

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic المسلة السوداء
ca	Catalan Obelisc negre
de	German Schwarzer Obelisk
el	Greek Μελανός Οβελίσκος του Σαλμανεσέρ Γ'
en	English Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
es	Spanish Obelisco negro
eu	Basque Obelisko beltza
fa	Persian ابلیسک سیاه
fr	French Obélisque noir
he	Hebrew האובליסק השחור
hu	Hungarian III. Sulmánu-asarídu Fekete obeliszkje
id	Indonesian Prasasti Obelisk Hitam
it	Italian Obelisco nero
ja	Japanese 黒色オベリスク
ka	Georgian შავი ობელისკი
nl	Dutch Zwarte obelisk
no	Norwegian Den svarte obelisk
pl	Polish Czarny obelisk Salmanasara III
pt	Portuguese Obelisco Negro
ru	Russian Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III
sl	Slovenian Črni obelisk
sv	Swedish Den svarta obelisken
tr	Turkish Kara Dikilitaş
uk	Ukrainian Чорний обеліск Шульману-ашареда III
ur	Urdu سیاہ ستون یادگار
zh	Chinese 黑色方尖碑

Best Rank

French: #177554 04.2017

Global: #190061 03.2015

Best Rank

French: #14809 12.2023

Global: #39802 02.2005

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