Westropp, Hodder M.: Handbook of archaeology: Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan, Roman (London, 1867)

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124 feet. A bronze gilt statue of Trajan formerly surmounted the
Whole. The column of Marcus Aurelius, commonly known as the
Antonine Column, was erected to him by the senate in eommemora-
tion of his victories in Germany over the Marcomanni. The has
reliefs represent these victories. The column is formed of twenty-
eight blocks of white marble. It is 88J feet high, including the
base and capital. This style of column was called columna cochlis.
J-he column or pillar, so called, of Pompey, at Alexandria in Egypt,





I'OMl'EY's pillar.

a later inscription announces to have been erected by a Roman
prefect in honour of the Emperor Diocletian. It is 88 feet 6 inches
high, and its shaft is of a single piece. The capital announces the
decline of the arts.

There is also the column of Phocas in the Roman Forum, erected
in a.d. G08, by Smaragdus the Exarch to the Emperor Phocas. It,
18 in the Corinthian style.

Nnml, or Columna Roslraia.—In the Capitol at Rome is a plain
column of marble, in has relief, with three prows of ships on each
S1(le, and part of an inscription in obsolete Latin; it is supposed to
ne the column which was erected by C. Duilius after his first

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