List of Roman columnar monuments

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The list of Roman column monuments includes columns of honor and victory columns erected during the Roman Empire . These pillar monuments either consist of stone monoliths or were built from column drums ; in this case, a spiral staircase often led up to the top in the hollow interior .

The first Roman column of honor is the Trajan's Column , consecrated in 113 AD , which still shapes the idea of ​​this type of architecture in terms of both its external appearance and its political propaganda function. The imperial capitals Rome and Constantinople housed most of the ancient columnar monuments.

list

The list is ordered by date of completion. All dimensions are given in meters ; It must be taken into account that the column structure is based on the Roman foot , which the ancient architects used to determine the harmonious proportions of the building.

image completion Surname city place Height above ground comment
The Trajan's Column on the Trajan's Forum 113 ad Trajan's Column Rome Trajan's Forum 35.07 m Original type of the honor column in relief
The preserved base of the Antoninus Pius column 161 ad Antoninus Pius column Rome Campus Martius only base preserved, function unknown
The Marcus Aurelius Column in Piazza Colonna 193 AD Marcus Aurelius column Rome Campus Martius 39.72 m Column of honor directly modeled on Trajan's column
The Gothic column in Gülhane Park Between AD 268 and 337 Gothic column Constantinople Gülhane Park inscribed column of indefinite purpose
Pompey column AD 297 Pompey column Alexandria 26.85 m Tetrarchical column monument of representative function with an inscribed dedication to Diocletian without naming the reason for its construction
330 AD Column of Constantine Constantinople Forum of Constantine On the occasion of the inauguration of Constantinople, a column inaugurated as Nova Roma on the forum
"Julian's Column" so-called " Juliansäule " Ankara Hükümet Meydanı 15 m Column of unknown destination and time from late Roman times
Theodosius column Constantinople Forum of Theodosius probably a victory column, supposedly erected on the occasion of the triumph of Theodosius I and his son Arcadius in 386
421 AD Arcadius column Constantinople Forum of Arcadius Victory column, started by Arcadius on the occasion of his victory over the Goths in 401, completed by Theodosius II in 421
The Markian column 2007 455 AD Marcian column Constantinople Honor column, erected by the city prefect Tatianus in honor of the emperor Marcian
543 ad Justinian column Constantinople Augustaeum square Honorary column for Justinian I with an equestrian statue of Theodosius I or Theodosius II that was probably used a second time. Toppled by the Ottomans in the 16th century
The Phocas column in the Roman Forum 608 AD Phocas column Rome Roman Forum Honorary column and last building on the Roman Forum

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jones (1993), pp. 23-38
  2. ↑ a b Jones 2000, p. 220
  3. ↑ Refers to base , column shaft and capital : Adam 1977, p. 50f.

literature

  • Jean-Pierre Adam: À propos du trilithon de Baalbek: Le transport et la mise en oeuvre des mégalithes , in: Syria , Vol. 54, No. 1/2 (1977), pp. 31–63 (50f.)
  • Giovanni Becatti : La colonna coclide istoriata. Problemi storici iconografici stilistici . L'Erma di Bretschneider, Rome 1960.
  • Mark Wilson Jones: One Hundred Feet and a Spiral Stair: The Problem of Designing Trajan's Column , in: Journal of Roman Archeology , Vol. 6 (1993), pp. 23-38.
  • Mark Wilson Jones: Principles of Roman Architecture , Yale University Press, New Haven 2000, ISBN 0-300-08138-3 , pp.? - ?.
  • Martina Jordan-Ruwe: The column monument. On the history of the elevated installation of antique portrait statues. Habelt, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-7749-2721-9 .
  • Christoph Höcker : Column monuments. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , Sp. 1226-1229.