Column of Marcus Aurelius. The Column of Marcus Aurelius is a Roman victory column in Piazza Colonna, Rome, Italy.
It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief: it was built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column. Because the original dedicatory inscription has been destroyed, it is not known whether it was built during the emperor's reign or after his death in 180; however, an inscription found in the vicinity attests that the column was completed by 193.
In terms of the topography of ancient Rome, the column stood on the north part of the Campus Martius, in the centre of a square. This square was either between the temple of Hadrian and the temple of Marcus Aurelius, or within the latter's sacred precinct, of which nothing remains.
Nearby is the site where the emperor's cremation occurred. The column's shaft is 29.6 metres high, on a 10.1 metres high base, which in turn originally stood on a 3 metres high platform-the column in total is 39.7 metres About 3 metres of the base have been below ground level since the 1589 restoration.
The column consists of 27 or 28 blocks of Carrara marble, each of 3.7 metres diameter, hollowed out whilst still at the quarry for a stairway of 190-200 steps within the column up to a platform at the top. Just as with Trajan's Column, this stairway is illuminated through narrow slits into the relief. The spiral picture relief tells the st
It is a Doric column featuring a spiral relief: it was built in honour of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and modeled on Trajan's Column. Because the original dedicatory inscription has been destroyed, it is not known whether it was built during the emperor's reign or after his death in 180; however, an inscription found in the vicinity attests that the column was completed by 193.
In terms of the topography of ancient Rome, the column stood on the north part of the Campus Martius, in the centre of a square. This square was either between the temple of Hadrian and the temple of Marcus Aurelius, or within the latter's sacred precinct, of which nothing remains.
Nearby is the site where the emperor's cremation occurred. The column's shaft is 29.6 metres high, on a 10.1 metres high base, which in turn originally stood on a 3 metres high platform-the column in total is 39.7 metres About 3 metres of the base have been below ground level since the 1589 restoration.
The column consists of 27 or 28 blocks of Carrara marble, each of 3.7 metres diameter, hollowed out whilst still at the quarry for a stairway of 190-200 steps within the column up to a platform at the top. Just as with Trajan's Column, this stairway is illuminated through narrow slits into the relief. The spiral picture relief tells the st
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