Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . lification of the Doric,of which there are so manyremains. The only remainingexamples of this order of aRoman period are the lowercolumns of the Coliseum,which are Tuscan, and notDoric, as the entablaturewants the distinguishing fea-ture of that style, the try-glyph. Monumental.—They are oflarge proportions, and havebeen erected in honour of anemperor or military this kind there are severalstill remaining. The column of Trajan, inhis Forum at Eome, erectedabout 115, was dedicatedto Trajan by the Romansenate and people
Handbook of archaeology, Egyptian - Greek - Etruscan - Roman . lification of the Doric,of which there are so manyremains. The only remainingexamples of this order of aRoman period are the lowercolumns of the Coliseum,which are Tuscan, and notDoric, as the entablaturewants the distinguishing fea-ture of that style, the try-glyph. Monumental.—They are oflarge proportions, and havebeen erected in honour of anemperor or military this kind there are severalstill remaining. The column of Trajan, inhis Forum at Eome, erectedabout 115, was dedicatedto Trajan by the Romansenate and people in com-memoration of Trajans twoDacian conquests. It is ofthe Doric order, and is com-posed of thirty-four blocks ofCarrara marble. The shaftis covered with bas reliefs,which go round the wholefrom the bottom to the top intwenty-three spirals. Theyrepresent the exploits ofTrajan in both his Dacianexpeditions. There is a spiralstaircase within, which winds thirteen times round, and contains 184steps. The height from the base to the summit of the capital is. COLUMN OF TRAJAN. COLUMNS. 5] 124 feet. A bronze gilt statue of Trajan formerly surmounted thewhole. The column of Marcus Aurelius, commonly known as theAntonine Column, was erected to him by the senate in eommeinora-tion of his victories in Germany over the Marcomanni. The hasreliefs represent these victories. The column is formed of twenty-eight blocks of white marble. It is 88J- feet high, including thebase and capital. This style of column was called columna column or pillar, so called, of Pompe}^, at Alexandria in Egypt,
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