Obelisco nero

Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III - black limestone Assyrian sculpture with inscriptions. Article “Obelisco nero” in Italian Wikipedia has 10.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 6 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.53 points.

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 “Obelisco nero”, its content was written by 39 registered users of Italian Wikipedia and edited by 406 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 17 times in Italian Wikipedia and cited 729 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Italian): #18784 in December 2023
• Global: #39752 in February 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Italian): #48821 in March 2015
• Global: #187719 in March 2015

There are 25 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, 2025 (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		50.455
2	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		49.1015
3	Polish (pl) Czarny obelisk Salmanasara III		34.7035
4	Persian (fa) ابلیسک سیاه		32.1706
5	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		29.0908
6	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		27.4756
7	Slovenian (sl) Črni obelisk		26.4299
8	Hungarian (hu) III. Sulmánu-asarídu Fekete obeliszkje		26.0022
9	Japanese (ja) 黒色オベリスク		25.8509
10	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		25.7816

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

The most popular language versions of the article "Obelisco nero" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		476 162
2	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		77 667
3	Russian (ru) Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III		47 571
4	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		42 372
5	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		41 805
6	French (fr) Obélisque noir		28 248
7	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		27 282
8	Polish (pl) Czarny obelisk Salmanasara III		21 956
9	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		19 755
10	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		17 328

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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 "Obelisco nero" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		3 800
2	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		311
3	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		185
4	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		181
5	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		165
6	Russian (ru) Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III		158
7	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		121
8	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		99
9	Chinese (zh) 黑色方尖碑		97
10	French (fr) Obélisque noir		81

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

Language versions of the article "Obelisco nero" 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		97
2	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		44
3	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		42
4	French (fr) Obélisque noir		39
5	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		39
6	Russian (ru) Чёрный обелиск Салманасара III		27
7	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		14
8	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		11
9	Japanese (ja) 黒色オベリスク		10
10	Polish (pl) Czarny obelisk Salmanasara III		10

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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 "Obelisco nero" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Slovenian (sl) Črni obelisk		1
2	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		0
3	Catalan (ca) Obelisc negre		0
4	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		0
5	Greek (el) Μελανός Οβελίσκος του Σαλμανεσέρ Γ'		0
6	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		0
7	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		0
8	Basque (eu) Obelisko beltza		0
9	Persian (fa) ابلیسک سیاه		0
10	French (fr) Obélisque noir		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 "Obelisco nero" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III		321
2	French (fr) Obélisque noir		89
3	Portuguese (pt) Obelisco Negro		64
4	Chinese (zh) 黑色方尖碑		40
5	Hebrew (he) האובליסק השחור		29
6	Spanish (es) Obelisco negro		28
7	Arabic (ar) المسلة السوداء		19
8	German (de) Schwarzer Obelisk		18
9	Italian (it) Obelisco nero		17
10	Indonesian (id) Prasasti Obelisk Hitam		16

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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
zh	Chinese 黑色方尖碑

Best Rank

Italian: #48821 03.2015

Global: #187719 03.2015

Best Rank

Italian: #18784 12.2023

Global: #39752 02.2005

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