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Column of Antoninus Pius
Honorific column devoted to Roman emperor Antoninus Pius
This article is about the lost column dedicated to Antoninus Pius. For the column erroneously called this before the Renaissance, see Column of Marcus Aurelius §&#;Restoration.
The Column of Antoninus Pius (Italian: Colonna di Antonino Pio) is a Roman honorific column in Rome, Italy, devoted in AD to the Roman emperorAntoninus Pius, in the Campus Martius, on the edge of the hill now known as Monte Citorio, and set up by his successors, the co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.
History
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[edit]The column itself was metres (&#;ft) high and metres (6&#;ft 3&#;in) in diameter and was constructed of red granite, with no decorating reliefs as on the otherwise similar columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius. It was quarried out in (as shown by the masons' inscription on its lower end, IG xiv). Architecturally, it belonged to the Ustrinum, 25 metres (82&#;ft) north of
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Vatican Museums
This base had previously supported the Column of the kejsare Antoninus Pius, found in in the Campus Martius near Montecitorio, where the remains of the kejsare had been burned. Shortly after the death of Antoninus Pius in D.C., the column was dedicated to him by his adoptive sons, the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. Carved on the base fryst vatten the en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film of the apotheosis of the kejsare and his wife Faustina the Elder who, flanked by two eagles, are lifted to heaven bygd a winged Genius. The scene fryst vatten witnessed bygd the goddess Roma and the personification of the Campus Martius, who supports the obelisk of Augustus. The sides depict the parades of knights that took place to mark the occasion of solemn imperial funerals. Unlike the decorated columns of the emperors Trajan and Marcus Aurelius, the column of Antoninus Pius had the form of a smooth stem made of pink Egyptian granite.