Rostrata column
As rostral column refers to a with real or symbolic Rammspornen from the bow of enemy ships decorated column of honor for special achievements of naval warfare or other nautical exploits. In some recent cases, they have mutated into street lamps .
Examples
Antiquity
The column of Gaius Duilius at the Roman Forum, which was rediscovered at the foot of the Capitol in 1565, together with an inscription, was exemplary . Duilius, who ruled the Carthage fleet in 260 BC. At Mylae , was the first Roman to be honored with a triumphal procession for a victory at sea . The ramming spurs carried along from the bow ( Latin rostrum ) of the conquered ships were later integrated into its honorary column (columna rostrata) . Probably under Augustus , who himself received a columna rostrata in the Roman Forum, the column and the corresponding inscription by Duilius were renewed, the text of the 3rd century BC. BC, the so-called elogium Duilii , was retained.
Modern times
Modern examples based on ancient models can be found in St. Petersburg (with beacons), in Vladivostok , Bordeaux and at the Columbus Memorial, erected in 1892 for the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' voyage to America, at Columbus Circle in New York . Another monumental Columna rostrata is the honor column erected for Wilhelm von Tegetthoff , the victor of the Battle of Lissa , on the Vienna Praterstern ( Tegetthoff monument ). A smaller rust column dedicated to his commander-in-chief, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian in 1876, was originally in Pula and was transferred after the First World War as a document of the defeat of Italy as a victory trophy to Venice on the edge of the Giardini pubblici .
Saint Petersburg, 1810
Paris, Place de la Concorde , around 1840
Venice, 1876
Columbus Monument, New York, 1892
Tegetthoff monument on the Praterstern, Vienna, 1896
literature
- Eric Kondratieff: The Column and Coinage of C. Duilius: Innovations in Iconography in Large and Small Media in the Middle Republic. In: Scripta Classica Israelica. Volume 23, 2004, pp. 1-39 ( online ).
Web links
- Columnae rostratae in Rome
- About the Columna rostrata by Gaius Duilius
- Images from Columbus Circle, New York City