Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Columna Cochlis

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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:

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

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the Column of M. Aurelius Antoninus.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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