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Pompey's Pillar (Arabic: عمود السواري, romanized: 'Amud El-Sawari) is a Roman triumphal column in Alexandria, Egypt. Despite its modern name, it was actually set up in honour of the Roman emperor Diocletian between 298–302 AD.
The larger of the two rises from a basal bifurcation, the strands of which scroll inwards and interlock with the terminals of a pelta; the resulting motif has been termed the scrolled palmette by Kilbride-Jones. (FIG 16) The 98 cross-inscribed pillar at Kilshannig, both faces.
7 Ιουν 2023 · Greek pillars consist of three parts: the capital, shaft, and base. The capital is the top part of the column and serves to carry the weight of the building above it. The shaft is the middle section of the column and defines the column's height.
The column itself, called the shaft of the pillar, is typically fluted, or inscribed with small cut-outs, the depth, surface, and number of which were supposed to conform to strict rules.
Obelisks (from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος obeliskos), meaning "pointed pillar" are tall four-sided monuments with a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the apex, quarried in one piece from a single stone. Obelisks were prominently placed in pairs at the entrance of temples by the Ancient Egyptians.
An obelisk (/ ˈ ɒ b ə l ɪ s k /; from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), [2] [3] diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós) 'spit, nail, pointed pillar') [4] is a tall, slender, tapered monument with four sides and a pyramidal or pyramidion top. [5]
21 Αυγ 2022 · The Rosetta Stone is one of the most important objects in the British Museum as it holds the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs—a script made up of small pictures that was used originally in ancient Egypt for religious texts. Hieroglyphic writing died out in Egypt in the fourth century C.E..
