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Columna Cochlis

A column with a spiral stair

Columna Cochlis. (Column of Trajan.)

case running through the centre so as to furnish a meaus of ascent to the top (Victor, De Reg. Urb. Rom. 8 and 9). These were usually columnae triumphales, surmounted by the statue of the person in whose honour the column was erected. Two still remain at Rome:


1.

the Column of Trajan (shown in the illustration), erected by Apollodorus, A.D. 104; and


2.

the Column of M. Aurelius Antoninus.

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