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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...

Pompey's Pillar is an ancient column in Alexandria, Egypt. Pompey's Pillar may also refer to: Pompeys Pillar National Monument, a large rock formation...

monoliths, including the Column of Diocletian in Alexandria, called "Pompey's Pillar", the "Column of the Goths" and the Column of Marcian in Constantinople...

Trajan's Column (Italian: Colonna Traiana, Latin: Columna Traiani) is a Roman triumphal column in Rome, Italy, that commemorates Roman emperor Trajan's...

Of the columns listed above, the following are the Roman columns. Roman triumphal columns were either monolithic pillars or composed of column drums;...

severely harassed by Pompey's cavalry. Some time later Metellus defeated Gaius Marcius Censorinus, another of Carbo's lieutenants, Pompey's cavalry caught Censorinus's...

towns of Wexford and New Ross. It is modelled on Pompey's Pillar, an early 4th-century victory column dedicated in Alexandria in Roman Egypt to the Roman...

of rock pillars are Chambers Pillar, Katskhi pillar, Pompeys Pillar, and Pillar Rock. The Oxford Dictionary of Geography defines earth pillar as: "An...

In October 2023 two Israeli tourists were shot and killed at Pompey's Pillar (column), a site in Alexandria. On 19 September 2008, tourists were held...

free-standing Corinthian column in the world. At 46.94 metres (154.0 ft) it is much taller than the free-standing Corinthian columns Pompey's Pillar in Alexandria...

000 t) Unnamed monolith (1,242 t) Capital of Trajan's Column (53.3 t) Shaft of Pompey's Pillar (285 t) Lateran Obelisk (455 t) Roof slab of Mausoleum...

earlier model, Trajan's Column, by 4.65 m, chiefly due to its higher pedestal. The tallest monolithic column was Pompey's Pillar in Alexandria which is...

A monolithic column or single-piece column is a large column of which the shaft is made from a single piece of stone instead of in vertical sections....

harbour and the rest has been built over in modern times. "Pompey's Pillar", a Roman triumphal column, is one of the best-known ancient monuments still standing...

a number of Roman historians, holding the fame of Julius and Pompey Claudian on a pillar of sulfur, holding the fame of Pluto and Proserpine The poem...

includes Billings, Laurel, Shepherd, Huntley, Worden, Ballantine, and Pompey's Pillar. It is currently owned and operated by Jonathan and Tana McNiven. The...

Honsinger Bluff, Montana on August 4, 1873, and in a skirmish near Pompey's Pillar, Montana on August 11, 1873. In the summer of 1874, Harrington and...

done because she was Pompey's favourite goddess, and Caesar hoped to gain the goddess's favour before the battle against Pompey.[citation needed] The...

He named the place Pompey's Tower, naming it after the son of his Shoshone interpreter and guide Sacajawea. In 1965, Pompey's Pillar was designated as...

the Pyramids of Dashour and Sacara - Slave boat on the Nile. 130. Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria. 131. Ruins of the Temple of Kom-Ombo, Upper Egypt. 132...